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Anonymous wrote:As per usual, lots of unhelpful, angry responses.

OP, you don't need to pay OT. My employers pay me $22/hour and I get right of first refusal for date night and weekend care hours. I don't ask for time and a half, nor have they ever brought it up. Date night hours are ridiculously easy and if I'm not available, it's just as easy for them to hire a teen/college student $15-$20 for kids who will be asleep for a majority of the care date. I've never ever felt anything wrong with this. It's a win-win, regardless of whatever some of these posters say. Been working for 4 years, so not stopping now.

You do realize that you could file today with the Department of Labor and get a windfall of something probably huge, 5 figures, in back pay? Nothing to be proud of when you were screwed out of legal wages.

Anonymous wrote:As per usual, lots of unhelpful, angry responses.

OP, you don't need to pay OT. My employers pay me $22/hour and I get right of first refusal for date night and weekend care hours. I don't ask for time and a half, nor have they ever brought it up. Date night hours are ridiculously easy and if I'm not available, it's just as easy for them to hire a teen/college student $15-$20 for kids who will be asleep for a majority of the care date. I've never ever felt anything wrong with this. It's a win-win, regardless of whatever some of these posters say. Been working for 4 years, so not stopping now.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why I continue to be shocked by the angry, incredulous tone of every response to reasonable, mom-to-mom questions on DCUM…people really need to CALM DOWN.

Of course I plan to provide for her accommodations, all meals, etc. Of course I plan to pay her exactly what she deserves, WHICH IS WHY IM ASKING ON HERE what is standard. We love her and she loves us. We don’t pay her overtime because I have never had her stay overtime. I relieve her each day a minute or two before quitting time and no later. If she babysits on a Saturday night after working for us during the week, we pay her our usual rate, which is exactly what she has asked for. If we go on vacation without her, I pay her her 40 hours, because that’s what we guarantee her each week. I don’t know why it’s so offensive to ask whether I can simply count her hours on different days, ensuring they add up to our agreed upon 40 minimum, and then pay her overtime for anything beyond that.

As I said in my post, I’ve never done this before, and I’m a relatively new mom. The way everyone automatically assumed I wouldn’t feed her, or “ship her off to a random place” or that i plan to not treat her well in any way is absurd.

SORRY I ASKED.

Anonymous wrote:If OP is happy to hire another sitter for date nights but Nanny wants to do it for normal rate I think that’s fine. I think OT rate is more for mandatory hours. OP for travel you should pay for travel time, work hours, a d a flare rate per night for sleeping. You don’t need to pay her hourly for sleeping imo.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why I continue to be shocked by the angry, incredulous tone of every response to reasonable, mom-to-mom questions on DCUM…people really need to CALM DOWN.

Of course I plan to provide for her accommodations, all meals, etc. Of course I plan to pay her exactly what she deserves, WHICH IS WHY IM ASKING ON HERE what is standard. We love her and she loves us. We don’t pay her overtime because I have never had her stay overtime. I relieve her each day a minute or two before quitting time and no later. If she babysits on a Saturday night after working for us during the week, we pay her our usual rate, which is exactly what she has asked for. If we go on vacation without her, I pay her her 40 hours, because that’s what we guarantee her each week. I don’t know why it’s so offensive to ask whether I can simply count her hours on different days, ensuring they add up to our agreed upon 40 minimum, and then pay her overtime for anything beyond that.

As I said in my post, I’ve never done this before, and I’m a relatively new mom. The way everyone automatically assumed I wouldn’t feed her, or “ship her off to a random place” or that i plan to not treat her well in any way is absurd.

SORRY I ASKED.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why I continue to be shocked by the angry, incredulous tone of every response to reasonable, mom-to-mom questions on DCUM…people really need to CALM DOWN.

Of course I plan to provide for her accommodations, all meals, etc. Of course I plan to pay her exactly what she deserves, WHICH IS WHY IM ASKING ON HERE what is standard. We love her and she loves us. We don’t pay her overtime because I have never had her stay overtime. I relieve her each day a minute or two before quitting time and no later. If she babysits on a Saturday night after working for us during the week, we pay her our usual rate, which is exactly what she has asked for. If we go on vacation without her, I pay her her 40 hours, because that’s what we guarantee her each week. I don’t know why it’s so offensive to ask whether I can simply count her hours on different days, ensuring they add up to our agreed upon 40 minimum, and then pay her overtime for anything beyond that.

As I said in my post, I’ve never done this before, and I’m a relatively new mom. The way everyone automatically assumed I wouldn’t feed her, or “ship her off to a random place” or that i plan to not treat her well in any way is absurd.

SORRY I ASKED.

Anonymous wrote:We pay our nanny $20/hr for 40 hours a week. We don't pay overtime but we very rarely ask her to babysit at night or stay late. When we do, we pay the same rate.

We want her to travel with us for a family wedding. I've never traveled with a nanny before. How do we pay her for this? Realistically we will only need her Friday afternoon and evening, all day Saturday and Saturday night, and Sunday morning. But she'll of course physically be there with us the whole time, regardless of when she's "on" vs "off." How should we pay her? How do you factor in sleeping time, travel time (whether she travels with us or takes a later flight), etc.?

For reference, we live in NWDC, in case it's helpful to know for going rates.

Thanks so much!

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Anonymous wrote:Bring a detailed breakdown of the hours you will need, as well as travel arrangements and sleeping arrangements and the location of the hotel and ask her what she thinks would be reasonable.

As a nanny, I charge for travel time if I am supposed to sit with the family, but not if I can sit by myself.

I would charge for all overnights if you wanted me to share a room with the baby, but if the baby will be in your room when I am not in charge of her, then I would charge less. My overnight fee is generally half pay for hours between 7pm and 7am.

I would want you to pay for all meals, either by giving me free rein to order room service or via daily stipend. And I would expect to be paid for all my normal hours, even if you don’t need me, as well as all overtime hours at time-and-a-half.

So for example if you all arrived on Wednesday, I would expect to be paid for my normal working hours Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (even if you all spent most of those days doing family stuff without me), and still be paid overtime rate for all the weekend hours.

BUT every nanny is different so ask her what she prefers.

Thanks for this. So what if we left on Wednesday and she didn’t get there til Friday, meaning she had off all day Weds and Thurs, but then worked over the weekend? Can we just pay her her usual 40 hours, plus any hours she works beyond that? I.e. she’s not working the 18 hours on Weds-Thurs that she normally would be, so can we count those towards her work on the weekend instead?