Considerations on legal regulation of the on call employment contract

Abstract

The on-call employment contract represents a distinctly atypical form of employment characterized by the fact that, in the employment contract concluded between the parties, typically, there is no clause specifying a minimum number of working hours that the employee would be obliged to work for and in favor of an employer, and therefore there is no correlative obligation to pay the salary by the employer. Such a contractual form finds its express regulation at the level of national legislations of the member states of the European Union, while each member state has its own regulatory specifics, which makes it possible to apply such a contractual form in practice in a distinct society.