Anonymous wrote:OP here: the reason I can accomodate the time off is that I work from home. If I'm not in a busy period, I just cover the time and finish up whatever wasn't done at night. Not ideal, but better than a new nanny search. If I am busy, then yes, I do have to pay for backup care, another reason I'm not interested in paying 1.5x for other hours.
Except for the frequency of these appointments, she is an excellent, very reliable nanny, so I'm not looking to replace her. She even schedules the appointments far enough in advance that I can find backup, so she's not leaving me in the lurch, exactly.
To the poster who quibbled with the definition of "banking" hours: what you describe is exactly the same thing. Overtime is to be paid when working more than 40 hours a week; you can't get around that rule by paying in advance.
I think I will tell her that if we can use her for extra hours during the same week, we'll do it, but otherwise I can't make it work.
OP - this strikes me as a fair and reasonable solution, which hopefully will allow some flexibility without enabling an ongoing nightmare of time management/hour calculations or abuse of the privilege.
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