Part-Time?

Part time flex .2 plus standby means that you'd be guaranteed 8 hours a week and you'd basically be on call the rest of the time. They'd have to pay you on-call premiums, which aren't generous, for those hours that you're sitting by the phone. ONA-affiliated facilities pay $3.30 an hour stand-by and $4.90 on statutory holidays. If you're called in they pay a 4 hour minimum at time and a half.

.5 means half-time or 20 hours a week averaged out over the pay period. I haven't seen "part-time reduced" before.

One thing to keep in mind is that hours of work are never exactly 40 hours a week. You aren't paid for meal breaks so an 8 hour shift is paid at 7.5 or 7.75 hours depending on the contract.

I can't answer that specific to Ontario. Out here the contrat stipulates:

Except with mutual agreement between the Employer and the Employee,

no Employee shall be assigned on-call duty for:

(i) more than seven consecutive days;

(ii) more than 72 consecutive hours; and

(iii) where possible, not more than one weekend in four, or in any event

no more than two weekends in a five week period.

You'd have to see if you can find out what collective agreement is in place for that position and see what it says.