Keeping nanny FT w/ kids in school all day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a situation like this. We pay based on 40 hours a week and agree to an average/true up at the end of the month. This allows us to use her for overnights on occasion. Sometimes I'll accompany DH on a work trip for a night because he's got a nice hotel room and we'll go to dinner then a concert. It's been good for our marriage. We never go over a 40-hour per week average, so it's not like we're taking advantage. We really need a fulltime, reliable nanny so it's worth it for us.

You’re banking hours and that’s illegal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a situation like this. We pay based on 40 hours a week and agree to an average/true up at the end of the month. This allows us to use her for overnights on occasion. Sometimes I'll accompany DH on a work trip for a night because he's got a nice hotel room and we'll go to dinner then a concert. It's been good for our marriage. We never go over a 40-hour per week average, so it's not like we're taking advantage. We really need a fulltime, reliable nanny so it's worth it for us.

You’re banking hours and that’s illegal.

+1. You are totally taking advantage. Once your nanny figures out that this is not allowed and the other employers don’t do it, she’ll leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a situation like this. We pay based on 40 hours a week and agree to an average/true up at the end of the month. This allows us to use her for overnights on occasion. Sometimes I'll accompany DH on a work trip for a night because he's got a nice hotel room and we'll go to dinner then a concert. It's been good for our marriage. We never go over a 40-hour per week average, so it's not like we're taking advantage. We really need a fulltime, reliable nanny so it's worth it for us.

You’re banking hours and that’s illegal.

+1. You are totally taking advantage. Once your nanny figures out that this is not allowed and the other employers don’t do it, she’ll leave.

I don’t see why this is not allowed. We did something similar with a part time sitter. I’m a SAHM with 3 kids, one with special needs that required lots of doctors appts, therapies etc. I had a sitter for 20 hours a week but we agreed from the start to be totally flexible. She wanted the stability of knowing she would get a certain amount of money every month, but she liked the flexibility too. Some weeks I needed her for 3 mornings and she got all her hours that way, and then the next week it was just one morning appointment, but then she’s come the another afternoon and stay thru bedtime while DH and I had a date night or whatever. She worked at a restaurant on some nights too, but didn’t want to do either child care or serving full time. We would always work out the days a week or two in advance and our date nights were done around her schedule. We had this arrangement for 2 years and it worked great for all of us.

[Anonymous]

Look into SACC. It takes care of early school mornings and later nights. They work on teacher work days and cover snow days, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a situation like this. We pay based on 40 hours a week and agree to an average/true up at the end of the month. This allows us to use her for overnights on occasion. Sometimes I'll accompany DH on a work trip for a night because he's got a nice hotel room and we'll go to dinner then a concert. It's been good for our marriage. We never go over a 40-hour per week average, so it's not like we're taking advantage. We really need a fulltime, reliable nanny so it's worth it for us.

You’re banking hours and that’s illegal.

+1. You are totally taking advantage. Once your nanny figures out that this is not allowed and the other employers don’t do it, she’ll leave.

I don’t see why this is not allowed. We did something similar with a part time sitter. I’m a SAHM with 3 kids, one with special needs that required lots of doctors appts, therapies etc. I had a sitter for 20 hours a week but we agreed from the start to be totally flexible. She wanted the stability of knowing she would get a certain amount of money every month, but she liked the flexibility too. Some weeks I needed her for 3 mornings and she got all her hours that way, and then the next week it was just one morning appointment, but then she’s come the another afternoon and stay thru bedtime while DH and I had a date night or whatever. She worked at a restaurant on some nights too, but didn’t want to do either child care or serving full time. We would always work out the days a week or two in advance and our date nights were done around her schedule. We had this arrangement for 2 years and it worked great for all of us.

It is illegal if she works more than 40 hours in one week and is not paid overtime for that week. Otherwise it is not illegal.

[Anonymous]

OP is very lucky to have continuity of care for her children.

[Anonymous]

Don’t let her go. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find someone just for Am and after school care? Impossible. Plus all of the days off of school and summer and breaks? You end up causing so much more stress for yourself and not even saving any money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a situation like this. We pay based on 40 hours a week and agree to an average/true up at the end of the month. This allows us to use her for overnights on occasion. Sometimes I'll accompany DH on a work trip for a night because he's got a nice hotel room and we'll go to dinner then a concert. It's been good for our marriage. We never go over a 40-hour per week average, so it's not like we're taking advantage. We really need a fulltime, reliable nanny so it's worth it for us.

You’re banking hours and that’s illegal.

+1. You are totally taking advantage. Once your nanny figures out that this is not allowed and the other employers don’t do it, she’ll leave.

Hardly taken advantage of if she has several weeks where she works less than 20 hours but still gets paid for 40 hours a week, but then has an overnight once a month where she's sleeping for much of the time she's getting paid/credited, and she never works more than a 40-hour per week average in any given month. I would sign up for that arrangement anytime.

[Anonymous]

Do you have a plan for Summers? They can get expensive and complicated, and it might be worthwhile keeping her even with light duties during the school if she can make Summer more manageable.

[Anonymous]

Banking overtime is fine if the employee gets 1.5hrs paid time off in undertime weeks for every hour overtime in overtime weeks.

[Anonymous]

Keep the nanny, she is family at this point. Would she enjoy volunteering at the school library? Or during lunch/recess? Allow her to run her own errands, go home, etc throughout the day. As long as she has her phone and can pick up a kid if they become ill at school or something, who cares where she is? She can run her day the same way a SAHM does. Also talk to her about how she’d like to spend the summers. If she’s bored without kids during the day, maybe she’d enjoy having the kids around (vs being in FT camps) to take to the pool, museums, etc.

[Anonymous]

See if you have friends or neighbors who need occasionally help or childcare, if your nanny is up for that. I would not lose someone great if you can swing keeping her on full time!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe find a nanny that would appreciate this situation and add additional duties to the job description- cooking and cleaning.

nannies are not maids or housecleaners and it is insulting to ask them to perform these duties. If your office asked you to clean the toilets when you have free time, would you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banking overtime is fine if the employee gets 1.5hrs paid time off in undertime weeks for every hour overtime in overtime weeks.

Banking hours is ILLEGAL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell her to babysit a couple late mornings per week for a SAHM looking to get out 1-2x per week. She can make double $$$$.

Stick an ad up on Next Door or ask around the neighborhood for her. I can almost guarantee someone would jump at this.

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"Tell" her like she is a servant? that should go over well!