It hurts my non-American brain that this even needs to be a question, or that a law might be required: The Boss Is Calling Late. Should the Law Let You Ignore It?. The only number my boss has for me is my work phone, and that automatically goes to Do-Not-Disturb at the end of the work day.
@mstrkapowski Same here. I feel it should be up to the emplyee to decide, and if one should be on-call, it should be in the contract, (and being compensated for it), and then one should of course answer.
@odd yeah. If there's an explicit agreement from the employee to be contactable out of hours (freely chosen, and adequately compensated) then obviously there's no issue. I've even agreed to be on-call myself on occasion, under certain circumstances. It's the idea that bosses would expect their employees to be contactable that I struggle with.