should we be paying our nanny holiday pay?

[Anonymous]

I think you realize by now that OF COURSE YOU NEED TO PAY HER for the week that you will be away. She has blocked out those hours for you (called guaranteed hours) and you need to pay her for her availability.

I am an MB and I would be pissed too if my boos just told me that I was getting an unpaid week off work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes I do. We need her ongoing help but she is young so a missed weeks money here and there shouldn't matter.

HA! Well you are old, so paying her her weeks salary shouldn't matter. What a joke. You need to pay her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have an out of school nanny who works three afternoons a week for us, 3 hours at a time.
She is 19, should we be paying holiday pay for when we go away or when I or DH are at home so don't need her?
She seemed annoyed that I told her we wouldn't need her next week.

Ofcorse you have to do.

[Anonymous]

Do MB's go by age? Like if one is very young as in 19-21, they don't think they need paying if they are not needed? Just curious.

[Anonymous]

I nannied my way through college to pay my rent. Yes I needed the money. My landlord didn't care that I was 19. I didn't get a young person's discount.

[Anonymous]

Our nanny is 62 with a good pension from another career and a small lottery winning - she doesn't need the money she earns as a nanny at all. And yes, we still pay her when we go out of town or take a week off work to be with our daughter. And Nanny would demand it if we didn't.

What is right is right. If she has made herself available to you for those hours on those days, you have an obligation to compensate her for those hours on those days when you decided you don't need her.

[Anonymous]

What the???? She is available for you those days so you should pay her. Doesn't matter if you are going away. And yes she needs the money. Did you do a contract with her at all? Just be fair and pay her the money.

[Anonymous]

Of course. She's counting on regular income.

[Anonymous]

Yes.
When I worked part time for several families, one of them began canceling on me last minute and didn't pay me for the time I had set aside for them. When it continued to happen, I found a new family who I could rely on more.

It doesn't matter that I was living at home at the time. I was working to save money and I still had bills to pay. Just because she's young doesn't mean she's living without bills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes I do. We need her ongoing help but she is young so a missed weeks money here and there shouldn't matter.

This statement is so unbelievably asinine that I keep wondering if this is a troll post.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it is a troll post as it sounds like one of my past nanny families. They used to have me working three afternoons a week but when they went on holidays they just didn't pay me and didn't see the problem with that. A lot of MB's/DB's think that if a nanny is young it doesn't matter if they miss out a week or twos pay. Totally wrong but it's how some bosses are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it is a troll post as it sounds like one of my past nanny families. They used to have me working three afternoons a week but when they went on holidays they just didn't pay me and didn't see the problem with that. A lot of MB's/DB's think that if a nanny is young it doesn't matter if they miss out a week or twos pay. Totally wrong but it's how some bosses are.

I think it's more that a 9-hour a week job is very part time anyway. People don't take them as seriously, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

That's not the point PP. You want someone for those 9 hours, you pay them even if you end up not needing them some days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have an out of school nanny who works three afternoons a week for us, 3 hours at a time.
She is 19, should we be paying holiday pay for when we go away or when I or DH are at home so don't need her?
She seemed annoyed that I told her we wouldn't need her next week.

Why do all these MB think they don't have to pay their nannies when they are out of town or vacation. Even I haven seen nannies who worked full-time and when their family takes more than a week off they are not happy to pay their nannies.
Nannies are not doing charity so be a little shameful and pay. If you not wanna pay her then don't hire any nannies.

[Anonymous]

I agree with you PP. I wouldn't dream of treating my nanny like that but know many who do.