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Nanny holidays/PTO/vacation/sick pay

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How do you handle this?  We plan to pay major holidays.  We are trying to figure out other days off...
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Re: Nanny holidays/PTO/vacation/sick pay

  • emberlee3emberlee3 member
    We paid major holidays and gave 1 week paid vacation.  Occasionally, we would have days where we did not need the nanny, and we paid her for those unexpected days off, as well.  Her contract included a few paid sick days, which she has never used.
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  • siempreyosiempreyo member

    When we considering a nanny we were factoring in about 2 weeks paid vacation, plus major holidays and a few sick days.

     I suggest trying to see if you can find out what the going norm is in your area.  I this may vary along with pay and my thinking was I wanted to be able to be competitive with what a nanny I hired would make with another family so I was able to attract some qualified, etc.  Only a week or having him/her go unpaid wouldn't have met the bar in my area, but it may in yours. 

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  • IblamethebeerIblamethebeer member

    imagedrpayne:
    How do you handle this?  We plan to pay major holidays.  We are trying to figure out other days off...

    My been there/done that advice on this is not to overpromise at the outset.

    Like I thought unpaid sick leave sounded really terrible so I told our old nanny we weren't capping her sick days as long as she didn't abuse them.  But then when she was (legitimately) sick for a full week and I was dropping her paycheck off at her house while also paying a back-up nanny, while scheduling a back-up nanny for the one week vacation she was taking later that month, I started to regret that policy.

    In general I think you're better off writing strict policies into the contract and then easing up as appropriate.  I would cap weather days and sick days (maybe 5 combined?), and I would only give one week of paid vacation at the time of nanny's choice, with a guarantee of at least [1-2] additional weeks of paid vacation at the time of your choice. 

    I do think it's standard policy that if you don't need nanny for additional days beyond her guaranteed paid vacation days (i.e. if you end up taking a third week of family vacation) that you still pay her, since she is available to work. 

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  • IBackBevoIBackBevo member

    My nanny is part-time - 30 hours a week, 3 days a week - M, T, and TH. My plan is that if a major holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, July 4, etc.)  falls on one of the days she works, I will give it to her as PTO.  Also, when we take vacation, I will give her that time off paid. My thought process is to essentially ensure she always has a guaranteed paycheck.  In other words, she should not be shorted on pay because we decide we don't need her.  Between the holiday and the time we take off, I expect that will be 2-3 weeks of PTO which I think is fair for part-time.  She has never requested any PTO beyond that (actually, she has not requested any time off at all yet), but if she ever does, I will probably give that to her as PTO, too, so long as it is not excessive just because I'm not going to nickel and dime someone who is a very good employee/nanny.

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