Tcm621 said:
Otherwise, as long you are capable of checking in every 3 days, You should be good. (my understanding is the entire CAF is basically on 72 hour notice) if you work 8 to 4 Monday to Friday, you should be good.
I think there is a lot of misconception of when we are 'on duty', 'working', people think on Class B, C or Reg force they are not subject to duty at whatever times.
This is the world as I believe it to be for anyone serving other than Cl A PRes, based on the web of CF, Command, Base and Unit policies I've seen over the years:
1) You are either on leave, or you are technically on duty.
2) During all that time you aren't on leave, and technically on duty, you are NORMALLY only required to be AT your place of duty during (what are supposed to be) published working hours, or during any scheduled event/time/shiftwork schedule, etc.
3) despite the published NORMAL duty/working hours for units, there is a requirement to work outside those hours and mbr's are expected to work then. There is no such thing a 'overtime'; we are already paid for it in the X/Military Factor in our pay.
4) You have a responsibility to provide your CofC with accurate contact information - because if you aren't on Leave with a signed leave pass, you are technically available 'on duty' even during the times you are not required to be at your place of duty/work. If I don't have a weekend leave pass in and am sitting home on Sunday, the CO doesn't have to recall me from leave because I am not ON leave. I can simply be told to report to work by "X time".
I'd be curious to see how a challenge to this would be reviewed by the MEGRC and what their analysis of the various policies and regulations would produce in the F & R; I'd bet a months pay it would result in "there is a requirement to be avail for duty anytime a mbr is not on a leave pass, there is a requirement for the CofC to be able to contact members, and therefore the mbr must be able to provide means of contact".
If I had a member who refused to get a landline or cell phone and provided their home address for a POC, I'd be advising them they'd better remain at that exact location at any and all times they are not on a signed leave pass. Having a cell phone is really for MY convenience, not the CFs - as I said I hold Ready status/standby regularly and often for a week or more at a time. Providing my cell phone means I can leave my home and still meet my duty requirements.
WAY too many B/C Class and Reg Force mbrs today think they 'have an 8 to 4, Mon to Fri' job. I recall years ago while at a CBG HQ, being told by Cl B mbrs they 'weren't able to work on the weekend of the Bde EX' as I was the HQ "S & D" force 2 I/C. And was told "well, I won't be here, I don't work extra". This was another Sgt saying this to me. I wanted to laugh, I wanted to hit the mbr with something for such fucktard-like thinking, but I elected to have them discuss their availability with the HQ Sgt-Major. Problem solved. ;D