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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Covid-era Raise” should be more - not less.  Nannies are in high demand right now.  And the work is harder - not easier because you’re home.

Your reasoning is backward, OP.  In short, you must give her a raise. [/quote]

I would agree, but she’s already getting paid for 2-10 hours she isn’t working every week.[/quote]

You are paying to reserve her time.  If you don’t need that many hours hire someone part time.  Good luck finding them![/quote]

I’m not OP.  I’m someone who can’t see a huge raise when someone is getting paid EVERY WEEK for not working up to a quarter of their hours.  In my experience, guaranteed hours are the normal hours per week, not the maximum.  This family would be well within their rights to slash guaranteed down to what the new normal is and then give a $1-2 merit raise.  They’d still come out ahead.  But nobody would be happy.[/quote]

But here’s the thing:

If they sometimes need those hours then she is still reserving her time.  If they cut guaranteed hours below 40, then she may choose to continue working for them and find a side gig during that extra time, or if the hours don’t allow for that, or she just doesn’t want to juggle multiple jobs then she will quit.  If you as an employer resent paying your nanny for time you don’t need then maybe look for someone who is willing to do extra chores like laundry or meal prep during those hours, but as anyone who has looked for PT nannies can tell you, they are hard to find and famously unreliable.[/quote]

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