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Being called off.

I just moved from New York to New Jersey. At the new hospital I work at, if the census is low they would call people off. But how they do it here is very different from NY.

At the new hospital, if the census was low, they would rotate who got called off, and you did NOT have a choice whether or not to come in. You could either take vacation time for those hours, or just not get paid at all if you don't have any vacation time.

In NY, if census was low, they would OFFER you the day off. You had the right to say yes or no. If you didn't want to be called off, they would just move down the list.

I don't know what the policies are in NJ. I looked though the NJDON and other state offices and couldn't find any information.

My biggest concern is that I'm part time and just started. I'm afraid I'm going to loose my hours and pay because I don't have any vacation time saved up...

Does anyone elses hospital work like this? It is legal?

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Our units and floors have low census rules that put nurses on call...so they call whoever is next on the list (same idea most of the above posts have) and ask if they want call. If nobody wants it, whoever's turn it is is mandated to take it. Call pay is only $1/hr...and I work nights, so the sleep sucks waiting to be called in.

I am a flight nurse and ground transport nurse now, and we pretty much don't ever get sent home.

Oh boy, Have you touch on my problem. I work at a hospital where the census has been low for awhile. I am out of any PTO or anything else to get me paid. I have been getting abou48 hrs. every 2 weeks for the past few months and Have a hard time paying bills with that. MY thing is ----If I am obligated to give them full time hrs. --like I signed up for --- WHY are they not obligated to give me the same. They said they need full-time then put you working part-time hrs. and get away with it. Is it legal or is it a lawsuit. I live in Texas and there is no union but I do have a lawyer.

I am currently unemployed, but at the hospital I did my preceptorship if the census was low they rotate who got called off. But before they checked the list for the next person to go home they would ask the nurses for volunteers. If no one volunteered, they would refer to the list for the next person to go home.

Lets say you volunteered to go home. Then the next time it was your turn on the list to be called off... you would still have to go home regardless if you previously volunteered. Volunteering is volunteering but their list was finite. I thought it was fair.

We are not allowed to volunteer. We have to take our turn.

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