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I work for a small courier service company in Michigan. There is one dispatcher on per day. At 5:00 pm when he goes home, he is required to take a company cell phone & pager. He must be available to receive pages from customers & dispatch a driver all through the night,  until the business opens the next day.  My question: Is the way this dispatcher being paid legal? Currently, if he receives a page from a customer, then he is paid $2.50 for 1 hour. If he receives another page an hour late, he is paid an additional $2.50, for that hour.  If he receives more calls during the same hour, he is still paid just the $2.50 for one hour. If a driver calls the dispatcher for questions, the dispatcher is not paid for that call. If the dispatcher is sleeping and does not hear the page he is written up for no response.

Is this  legal compensation for the dispatcher?

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