I should get paid for this, right? I should!

[Anonymous]

Unlike many of the other posters, I don't think it is an obvious issue. Are you paid on an hourly basis or salary? If salary, I'm not sure you are necessarily entitled to be paid for the weekend hours. It is a part of the job. If hourly, you should definitely be paid, since working more or less cuts into your pay. What does your nanny contract say about this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unlike many of the other posters, I don't think it is an obvious issue. Are you paid on an hourly basis or salary? If salary, I'm not sure you are necessarily entitled to be paid for the weekend hours. It is a part of the job. If hourly, you should definitely be paid, since working more or less cuts into your pay. What does your nanny contract say about this?

There is no such thing as a salaried nanny. You can guarantee hours, etc. but the law defines us as hourly workers and are therefore entitled to pay for each hour worked. Traditional salaried workers more than make up for all the extra hours they work in high salaries and cushy benefits. This is not the case for nannies, and the laws are there to protect them from working obscene amounts of hours for a "salary" that very quickly becomes less than minimum wage.

[Anonymous]

Definitely agree with PP's conclusion, but nannies are salaried workers because of the nature of their work. There are plenty of low salary, low benefit jobs. And there are really high paying, cushy hourly jobs. It's about whether the job is better defined by set tasks or set hours. One is not inherently better than the other.

[Anonymous]

Nannies are non-exempt under the FLSA, period, end of story.