Anonymous
08/04/2020 10:46
Subject: Covid-era Raise -- Help
Newsflash parents; if you're paying for a 40 hour work week and don't need them all each week but nanny is still available, you're not overpaying. You're guaranteeing her availability. I have had guaranteed pay for a set number of hours 52 weeks a year, whether or not I'm needed. I would refuse any other arrangement. If 40 hours isn't needed anymore, then ask if 35 or whatever would work or look elsewhere if the nanny needs those extra hours and you absolutely know you don't.
Anonymous
08/03/2020 15:42
Subject: Covid-era Raise -- Help
I would suggest this is the time you look at and review the whole contract, including hours and pay. If you can commit more comfortably to 35 hours guaranteed and at higher rate do that, but then you need to know when you need the extra 3 hours its on the nanny's terms and she may not be available. On the weeks you only need 30 hours, you're still paying a little more but not 10 extra hours.
Every year as an employer you have the chance to negotiate. Do it now and make it reasonable for all of you.
Every year as an employer you have the chance to negotiate. Do it now and make it reasonable for all of you.
Anonymous
07/30/2020 09:04
Subject: Re:Covid-era Raise -- Help
Okay thank you. I'm OP. I'm thinking $1 per hour more at 40 hrs/week. Thanks!
Anonymous
07/25/2020 22:01
Subject: Re:Covid-era Raise -- Help
The point is the nanny didn’t ask for the 2 to 10 hours a week off!!
Come on, this is a no brained! Of course the employee deserves a first year raise and you don’t renegotiate hours at the year mark if you want to keep the employee. ESPECIALLY NOW.
Come on, this is a no brained! Of course the employee deserves a first year raise and you don’t renegotiate hours at the year mark if you want to keep the employee. ESPECIALLY NOW.
Anonymous
07/25/2020 21:55
Subject: Re:Covid-era Raise -- Help
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:“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.
I would agree, but she’s already getting paid for 2-10 hours she isn’t working every week.
You are paying to reserve her time. If you don’t need that many hours hire someone part time. Good luck finding them!
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.
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.
I’m a nanny, PP. if it wasn’t every week with 2-10 hours paid, I’d agree to needing a raise. But it’s up to a quarter of her hours!
OP isn’t asking to cut her hours, but they could. I said a col raise would be necessary. But I just can’t see any reasonable person requiring a merit raise when they’re getting up to a quarter of their hours paid without working EVERY WEEK.
Anonymous
07/25/2020 21:52
Subject: Re:Covid-era Raise -- Help
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:“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.
I would agree, but she’s already getting paid for 2-10 hours she isn’t working every week.
You are paying to reserve her time. If you don’t need that many hours hire someone part time. Good luck finding them!
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.
It’s wrong to change the terms/hours of a contract. The nanny accepted the position based on her guaranteed hours. It’s not the employee’s decision or request to leave work early here.
At least $1 an hour raise is called for here. That’s not huge. It’s the right thing to do.
Disagree. This is the yearly review, it’s precisely when negotiating should happen.