I’ve worked at a few IT places that made me do on-call which is somewhat common in the industry. Place #1 first tried to tell me that’s only for “their” employees since I was doing work for another company but I told them I won’t do it simply, so they said fine I’ll pay you but you have to fill out this form, I fill it out and I don’t get paid I have to hound them for it. Months go on same old song and dance so I let my self get fired.
Job 2, no problem paying me the on-call pay but again if any over time or on call is performed we have to fill out a form. This company wanted a printed sheet to be signed by me and the supervisor which was a pain in the ass since neither of us were in the office. If I tried to fill out overtime sheets they would try to guilt trip me into taking a day off instead of getting paid more.
Regardless both companies made me track my hours through software online so they already know they owe me over time. The on-call is also routinely scheduled and everyone is on-call once a month so what purpose does this extra form give besides letting the employees potentially forfeit their pay bonus?