Federal holidays and snow days?

[Anonymous]

Yes. Though, in my experience, most nannies only get the six big fed holidays:
New year, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, thanksgiving, Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Though, in my experience, most nannies only get the six big fed holidays:
New year, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, thanksgiving, Christmas.

We only give the big 6 holidays as we have to work all others. Also, we go away for at least a week, usually two, each year when our nanny is not on vacation and she gets paid for that time, so I figure that is a good compromise. She only has to take one of her two weeks paid vacation at the same time as us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is our first time working with a nanny -- can you tell me are we supposed to pay the nanny on federal holidays and snow days where we won't need her to work or no?

I'm a Fed and this is what we do. If OPM says we don't work, she gets off. If it's a 2 hour delay, I let her get here a bit later. She lives 25 minutes away not including traffic and wouldn't want her to get into an accident. I usually will choose to telework on those days. On the days we get early dismissal (eg, 2 hours off for Friday before Xmas), I usually give her at least an hour early departure. I may run a quick errand before heading home.