Anonymous
Post 12/13/2020 18:33     Subject: Re:FFCRA and pod teacher w/ covid
Anonymous wrote:https://www.homeworksolutions.com/knowledge-center/category/covid-19_ffcra/


This is the only relevant response!
Shares are a group decision and she’s here trying to get answers to make some kind of payment work, not to get judgments on a decision already made about sick leave. I am willing to guess a lot of the people replying have not actually hired a nanny.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2020 14:43     Subject: FFCRA and pod teacher w/ covid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People are rightly taking the OP to task for hiring a teacher for four families and not providing any sick leave during Covid. To deter risky behavior (which apparently didn't work anyway). Absolutely ridiculous and short sighted.


Sounds like she wanted to provide sick leave but was overruled by the other families. Now she has the unenviable task of getting everyone in compliance on FFCRA.
Then the other families suck and they all need to chip in and pay. This is ridiculous! They are lucky she even told them she was sick.


It is ridiculous but I have been shocked in the past how cheap other well-to-do parents can be with regard to paying for things child-related. I disagree with you that they were “lucky she even told then she was sick”. That is the least she could do under the circumstances.
It’s not a stretch of the imagination to suggest that an hourly employee might conceal illness if they are afraid of losing income. This has been pointed out numerous times in coverage of the pandemic.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2020 14:38     Subject: FFCRA and pod teacher w/ covid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People are rightly taking the OP to task for hiring a teacher for four families and not providing any sick leave during Covid. To deter risky behavior (which apparently didn't work anyway). Absolutely ridiculous and short sighted.


Sounds like she wanted to provide sick leave but was overruled by the other families. Now she has the unenviable task of getting everyone in compliance on FFCRA.
Then the other families suck and they all need to chip in and pay. This is ridiculous! They are lucky she even told them she was sick.


It is ridiculous but I have been shocked in the past how cheap other well-to-do parents can be with regard to paying for things child-related. I disagree with you that they were “lucky she even told then she was sick”. That is the least she could do under the circumstances.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2020 08:13     Subject: FFCRA and pod teacher w/ covid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People are rightly taking the OP to task for hiring a teacher for four families and not providing any sick leave during Covid. To deter risky behavior (which apparently didn't work anyway). Absolutely ridiculous and short sighted.


Sounds like she wanted to provide sick leave but was overruled by the other families. Now she has the unenviable task of getting everyone in compliance on FFCRA.
Then the other families suck and they all need to chip in and pay. This is ridiculous! They are lucky she even told them she was sick.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2020 18:02     Subject: FFCRA and pod teacher w/ covid
Anonymous wrote:People are rightly taking the OP to task for hiring a teacher for four families and not providing any sick leave during Covid. To deter risky behavior (which apparently didn't work anyway). Absolutely ridiculous and short sighted.


Sounds like she wanted to provide sick leave but was overruled by the other families. Now she has the unenviable task of getting everyone in compliance on FFCRA.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2020 08:22     Subject: FFCRA and pod teacher w/ covid
Anonymous wrote:This woman had a four-month contract and now she needs to be out for two weeks. No one offers two weeks of paid leave on a four-month contract. I had suggested two days of sick leave, prorated from the standard 5 days for a one-year contract, but the other parents were not willing to offer this.

She went on an ill-advised flight to a family gathering for Thanksgiving, where she caught covid. Everyone is furious. We already gave her a paid week of quarantine time when she came back, during which she developed symptoms and then tested positive.

No one wants to give her more paid time off for her irresponsible vacation. I am looking into whether she has rights to paid sick time off under federal law. My interpretation is that she does. If anyone wants to comment on their experience with this law and not make guesses about what kind of person I am, I am all ears.


Just pay her for 2 weeks and fire her. Done.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2020 08:11     Subject: FFCRA and pod teacher w/ covid
People are rightly taking the OP to task for hiring a teacher for four families and not providing any sick leave during Covid. To deter risky behavior (which apparently didn't work anyway). Absolutely ridiculous and short sighted.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2020 02:05     Subject: Re:FFCRA and pod teacher w/ covid
I am really sorry that people are judging you for what has happened with how people are commenting here. I am not sure why we aren't assuming that as parents we are making the best decisions we can for our kids. I don't have any real advice, I don't know if there was a minimum amount of time that she has to work to be eligible etc, but I know there is a website where she can answer questions and find out what she is eligible for (as long as she was getting legally paid...) Best of luck