Temporarily furloughing nanny? Strategies?

[Anonymous]

I would give my nanny the choice of cutting hours in half temporarily or going on unemployment. I would tell her that if I got back pay I would make up the hours either way. I would be very sad but understand if she found another job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Average pay is 11

Says who?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would give my nanny the choice of cutting hours in half temporarily or going on unemployment. I would tell her that if I got back pay I would make up the hours either way. I would be very sad but understand if she found another job.

And look for another one when you're ready? Good luck with that. They're a dime a dozen for your broken-English warm bodies.
But they aren't nannies. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you do the math on how much you can afford to pay her for the next few weeks, lay it out for her and offer to give her references on the local moms listserve to help her pick up extra hours until you're able to pay her 100% again. If you really value her as an employee, you'll be honest, give her as much warning as possible, and do everything you can to make sure she can take care of her needs.

I know it sounds like no one would hire extra help at this point, but there might be the occasional family in a bind. I need care for two days in the next couple weeks and if you sent out a sincere recommendation on my neighborhood's listserve, I might consider her. I'm sure there are at least a few others in the same boat.

+1 I would absolutely jump at the chance at getting some extra babysitting help now. We have an AP so our hours are limited. And, our regular babysitter is out of town for a month. You never know who else might be in our circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Op have you even talked to your nanny about this yet? I see some of the posts that people are suggesting helping her get babysitting jobs from friends and family.

Are you sure your nanny wants to be passed around like a common household item.

Perhaps she will want to find something new

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smart nannies will learn to avoid government worker families.

Actually, i would say that smart nannies know that government workers are more stable than private sector workers. Private sector workers get fired at the drop of a hat-- not govt. employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you can't afford to have a nanny. You can't. That's OK -- a lot of people can't. You just need to admit that you are not able to have a "staff" and make other accommodations.

No need for nastiness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, guess what. My family income went from $185K to $0K with this shutdown and I'm still paying my full childcare bill, as I will be until this ends.

No need for the nasty attitude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not op. Most nannies are at will salary, why would you create a deal better than your own work situation?

You do realize your employer would cut you tomorrow if they had to.

All employees are at will employees.

[Anonymous]

If you're going to police nastiness in every thread, you're going to be quite busy. The responses you don't like aren't even that bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not op. Most nannies are at will salary, why would you create a deal better than your own work situation?

You do realize your employer would cut you tomorrow if they had to.

All employees are at will employees.

Wrong. Unionized ones aren't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not op. Most nannies are at will salary, why would you create a deal better than your own work situation?

You do realize your employer would cut you tomorrow if they had to.

All employees are at will employees.

Wrong. Unionized ones aren't.

I didn't realize there was a nanny union.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:60% of our HHI is from Government contracting.

Due to the shutdown we lost 18% of our HHI and are down to 82% HHI

If the shutdown goes on past 2 weeks our income will go down to 40%. of our original HHI

We are ok as of now but if we go down to 40% we cannot afford the nanny until the shutdown is resolved.

What would you do in this situation?

Here is the problem. You are dealing with supply and demand. If your H gets furloughed, he has no choice but the accept, because the whole industry is furloughed; there are no other options.

On the other hand, the Nanny can find other work. And they, you will not have a Nanny. it is not rocket science. I would wait three weeks, as I do not think the shutdown will go past mid october.

For what it is worth, my company just announced that indirect people (not people charging to contracts), are only to work 24 hrs next week, to offset the reduced cash flow.

[Anonymous]

Isn't she under a contract? What does her contract say re reductions in hours or termination without cause?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like a lot more people agree with cutting the nanny in this thread http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/334867.page

They might even enjoy doing some parenting.
This could work out very well for the children, actually.
Good luck to all.

Give it a rest, troll. Employing a nanny does not equal not parenting children.