Why are nannies paid per hour and not per day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why we did guaranteed hours and a start and stop time. I know how much we will owe the nanny every week and she know how much she’ll make. We are adults and communicate. She’s not late except a rare traffic occasion and I’m not late coming home. If I’m early, I send her home and she gets paid anyway. If I need her to work an extra hour I let her know with plenty of notice and she can either get overtime or have an earlier day the same week (her choice).

Isn’t that in a way banking hours? She should get paid for all guaranteed hours

She always gets paid for all guaranteed hours no matter what. And this is up to about one hour here and there max. Anything more and we just pay the OT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why we did guaranteed hours and a start and stop time. I know how much we will owe the nanny every week and she know how much she’ll make. We are adults and communicate. She’s not late except a rare traffic occasion and I’m not late coming home. If I’m early, I send her home and she gets paid anyway. If I need her to work an extra hour I let her know with plenty of notice and she can either get overtime or have an earlier day the same week (her choice).

Isn’t that in a way banking hours? She should get paid for all guaranteed hours

She always gets paid for all guaranteed hours no matter what. And this is up to about one hour here and there max. Anything more and we just pay the OT.

Banking hours with a nanny is perfectly legal as long as it
is within the same pay period.

-a nanny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why we did guaranteed hours and a start and stop time. I know how much we will owe the nanny every week and she know how much she’ll make. We are adults and communicate. She’s not late except a rare traffic occasion and I’m not late coming home. If I’m early, I send her home and she gets paid anyway. If I need her to work an extra hour I let her know with plenty of notice and she can either get overtime or have an earlier day the same week (her choice).

Isn’t that in a way banking hours? She should get paid for all guaranteed hours

She always gets paid for all guaranteed hours no matter what. And this is up to about one hour here and there max. Anything more and we just pay the OT.

Banking hours with a nanny is perfectly legal as long as it
is within the same pay period.

-a nanny

I thought banking hours was illegal? Nannies are hourly employees so they get paid for all hours worked

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why we did guaranteed hours and a start and stop time. I know how much we will owe the nanny every week and she know how much she’ll make. We are adults and communicate. She’s not late except a rare traffic occasion and I’m not late coming home. If I’m early, I send her home and she gets paid anyway. If I need her to work an extra hour I let her know with plenty of notice and she can either get overtime or have an earlier day the same week (her choice).

Isn’t that in a way banking hours? She should get paid for all guaranteed hours

She always gets paid for all guaranteed hours no matter what. And this is up to about one hour here and there max. Anything more and we just pay the OT.

Banking hours with a nanny is perfectly legal as long as it
is within the same pay period.

-a nanny

I thought banking hours was illegal? Nannies are hourly employees so they get paid for all hours worked

The nanny was saying that an extra hour on Monday “banked” for early release on Friday is a wash and legal. PP gets out of OT (illegally) by only paying when it’s an hour or more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why we did guaranteed hours and a start and stop time. I know how much we will owe the nanny every week and she know how much she’ll make. We are adults and communicate. She’s not late except a rare traffic occasion and I’m not late coming home. If I’m early, I send her home and she gets paid anyway. If I need her to work an extra hour I let her know with plenty of notice and she can either get overtime or have an earlier day the same week (her choice).

It is illegal to give comp time to hourly employees even if she is agreeable.

It's not illegal to change an hourly worker's hours so that the total is the same within the week. That's not "comp time". That's standard practice for hourly employees.

[Anonymous]

For example, let’s say my schedule is 8-4 and I stay 8-5. The next day I’m asked to go home at 3 since I stayed one hour extra the day before. Is this allowed/legal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For example, let’s say my schedule is 8-4 and I stay 8-5. The next day I’m asked to go home at 3 since I stayed one hour extra the day before. Is this allowed/legal?

Legally, yes. Ethically? Depends on whether the nanny agreed to it in a contract.

[Anonymous]

In the same pay period , it is legal since nanny is paid for the hours actually worked. some edge exceptions in a few places like CA where overtime must be done based on hours each day as opposed to hours each week, but that’s essentially a special definition of what the pay period is. Guaranteed hours are a benefit that is relatively unique to nannying for various reasons, and it depends on the relationship / contract terms / how much notice MB gives / what else nanny has going on in her off time as to the exact structure of those guaranteed hours and whether the nanny is okay with shifting hours occasionally here and there (again, in the same pay period). In the US you cannot legally have someone work say, 41 hours in one week and 39 another and pay 40 both weeks if their pay period is weekly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the same pay period , it is legal since nanny is paid for the hours actually worked. some edge exceptions in a few places like CA where overtime must be done based on hours each day as opposed to hours each week, but that’s essentially a special definition of what the pay period is. Guaranteed hours are a benefit that is relatively unique to nannying for various reasons, and it depends on the relationship / contract terms / how much notice MB gives / what else nanny has going on in her off time as to the exact structure of those guaranteed hours and whether the nanny is okay with shifting hours occasionally here and there (again, in the same pay period). In the US you cannot legally have someone work say, 41 hours in one week and 39 another and pay 40 both weeks if their pay period is weekly.

Oh ok yes I see, samepay period. I’m in LA and all the companies I’ve worked for do pay time and half daily, not weekly. So if I work 9.5 h one day I get paid 1.5x my rate after 8 hours, even if I don’t work 40 hours a week.

[Anonymous]

Hourly so tounare paid for very hour worked

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like it would just be easier to pay per day, and if nanny agrees, why not? It's easier for both not to have to keep track and if parents work routine is the same every day, hours are generally the same.

So than unscrupulous and chesp people like you cannot cheat them.