Temporarily furloughing nanny? Strategies?

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What do the terms of your contract say?

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you don't need to save as much if you work a government related job. That's the way we grew up , this is a strange anomaly that will pass and went happen again after people get pissed and vote people out

[Anonymous]

Pathetic that OP has no savings for contingencies. If you value this nanny then you'll do your best to accommodate her. I sense you don't value her. Obviously responses that don't support OP's "in it for me" view are "idiotic." And you don't understand unemployment, OP. Her filing the claim effects YOUR wallet. And I'm not a nanny, don't have a nanny and never have. You're poor nanny. Hopefully this will be a lesson learned for her whereby she demands a contract (if she doesn't have one with OP) and one that stipulates severance pay, severing the contract, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Pathetic that OP has no savings for contingencies. If you value this nanny then you'll do your best to accommodate her. I sense you don't value her. Obviously responses that don't support OP's "in it for me" view are "idiotic." And you don't understand unemployment, OP. Her filing the claim effects YOUR wallet. And I'm not a nanny, don't have a nanny and never have. You're poor nanny. Hopefully this will be a lesson learned for her whereby she demands a contract (if she doesn't have one with OP) and one that stipulates severance pay, severing the contract, etc.

You must not work in the private sector. Unless you are an executive most people don't have anything more than an at will agreement with no severance or contract.

[Anonymous]

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.

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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.

Business 101, if money isn't coming in, you stop money from going out. Even if someone had reserve money to "afford staff" nothing says you need to pay them when your situation changes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

[Anonymous]

Just dump the nanny, find another one. Unless you incredibly attached, do what you gotta do.

[Anonymous]

how many people responding on here are nannies I would be A LOT.

[Anonymous]

O p, I get where you are coming from. If we lost income and were in your situation we would stress over what to do re nanny. However it wasn't easy to find a good one....we had to interview and talk to a lot of candidates before settling on the woman we hired. She is great with our son, and I would be fearful of losing her and going through the whole process again of finding someone who, for all practical purposes, sees our kid more during the week than we do. We pay more for a nanny than daycare so that we can have one one care for our son provided by someone we trust, that's not an easy job to fill.

Another thing is that our contract w our nanny states that we have to give her two weeks notice if we are to let her go. Conversely, she is to give us two weeks notice if she is to leave. Seeing as we have no idea how long the shutdown will last, how do we know it will go long enough that it would be financially beneficial to let her go and find someone new? Because I'm going to assume that if we 'furloughed' her, she would look for a new employer, and rightly so. She's great, so I'd assume she wouldn't have problems finding a new job.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:I think if things get bad we will just lay her her off with the understanding she will go on unemployment until this temporary issue resolves itself. We will then re-hire her later. Thanks everyone for such idiotic responses, I figured it out myself.

With the understanding she will do what's convenient for you? What makes you think she will be available for rehire? It may take longer to find a job, but hopefully she has already started. Good luck to your nanny!

Once this issue resolves itself and income comes back we will re-hire her. What's so hard to understand. She wouldn't be out any money either we have already assisted her with a bonus.

You are assuming she will be available. What if she isn't? Do you have a plan?

Why wouldn't she be available? It's not like I am leaving her out to dry I plan to cover her the best I can until this situation resolves itself. In fact she won't be out any money. I wish my employer did the same.

How will she not be out any money??? Are you paying her full salary while she is furloughed? Either you don't understand what furlough means, or you don't understand what "not out any money" means. How will you cover her? You aren't making any sense. She might not be available because she might find a new job. Why is that so hard to get?

Yeah, I don't understand this either. A furlough=no pay, so how is she not out any money?

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Anonymous wrote:I think if things get bad we will just lay her her off with the understanding she will go on unemployment until this temporary issue resolves itself. We will then re-hire her later. Thanks everyone for such idiotic responses, I figured it out myself.

With the understanding she will do what's convenient for you? What makes you think she will be available for rehire? It may take longer to find a job, but hopefully she has already started. Good luck to your nanny!

Once this issue resolves itself and income comes back we will re-hire her. What's so hard to understand. She wouldn't be out any money either we have already assisted her with a bonus.

You are assuming she will be available. What if she isn't? Do you have a plan?

Why wouldn't she be available? It's not like I am leaving her out to dry I plan to cover her the best I can until this situation resolves itself. In fact she won't be out any money. I wish my employer did the same.

How will she not be out any money??? Are you paying her full salary while she is furloughed? Either you don't understand what furlough means, or you don't understand what "not out any money" means. How will you cover her? You aren't making any sense. She might not be available because she might find a new job. Why is that so hard to get?

Yeah, I don't understand this either. A furlough=no pay, so how is she not out any money?

OP here, I have thought of another scenario that would avoid the furlough. Thanks for your suggestions.

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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.

Because we are fucked if our nanny up and quits on us. So we are making it as pleasant of a work environment for her as possible so that we (hopefully) don't wake up some day and have to unexpectedly figure out who is going to watch our kid while we both work. Two weeks of her salary is under $1k, which is worth it to us to not be caught, scrambling, without childcare.

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This is why I choose to stay home. Good luck OP.

[Anonymous]

Nanny here- If you furloughed me, I'd look for another job immediately. If I didn't find one, and you wanted me back I'd go work for you... Until I found another job. No nanny would put up with that, and you'll be the one who gets screwed in the end. Not her.