Nanny requested to be paid more on weekends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she is already working 40 hours, then the weekend hours should be 1.5x her normal hourly rate. So, I’m assuming that $7 is probably time and a half.

Op here. It’s actaully less than 1.5 x

Are you subbing the extra hours (e.g. now she’ll have T/W off? ). Or is she asking for $7 to be added to her base rate and then paying an OT rate based on that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she is already working 40 hours, then the weekend hours should be 1.5x her normal hourly rate. So, I’m assuming that $7 is probably time and a half.

Op here. It’s actaully less than 1.5 x

Then, legally, you should pay her OT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she is already working 40 hours, then the weekend hours should be 1.5x her normal hourly rate. So, I’m assuming that $7 is probably time and a half.

Op here. It’s actaully less than 1.5 x

Are you subbing the extra hours (e.g. now she’ll have T/W off? ). Or is she asking for $7 to be added to her base rate and then paying an OT rate based on that?

She would be working all 7 days

[Anonymous]

I charge more for weekends. Basically overtime rate, so for me it’s about 8-9 more an hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just do the right thing and pay her 1.5 x her rate for anything over 40 hours.

op here, and yes I agree. i just texted and emailed her saying that I would feel more comfortable paying her 1.5x her rate, since she'll be working about 56 hours all 7 days. I do pay her OT during the week so it only makes sense to extend that as well to the weekend. I honestly was just being cheap and realized that anywhere else she would be paid 1.5x. thank you all for your input.

Is this REALLY the OP responding above......??!

Anyway, OP - If you have your Nanny work weekends (even for three months!), I guarantee you that you will likely burn her out.

I mean she will not have any days off for the next three months!!
When will she have time to rest? Rejuvenate? Socialize? Clean her house + do laundry??

I strongly doubt that your child(ren) will get the best care.

This is why I live in, even for temp jobs. Most live-out nannies have lives and homes that limit their ability/willingness to work 7 days per week (totally understandable!). Because I live in the family’s home and I don’t have a spouse or children, I don’t have the commitments that make 7 days per week or 24 hour shifts untenable.

OP, 7 days per week with this nanny is unsustainable, even for 3 months, even if she only will work around 55 hours per week (8 hours for 7 days is 56). You have several options: 1. Weekend nanny. 2. Ask nanny to take two weekdays off, work weekends and find a share for those two weekdays. 3. Figure out a rate this is significantly higher for weekends (eg. if hourly rate during the week is $20/hour, pay $40/hour for weekends), and be prepared to have her work 3-4 weekends per month with 1 off, or have her work 13 days, then have a day off.

Finding a separate (reliable) weekend nanny isn’t that difficult, especially if you guarantee her pay for 3 months, let her know that there will be 1 sick day after 1 but there will be a bonus at the end (something like an extra weekend of pay) if she doesn’t miss any days and doesn’t quit early. Talk to any agency, start your search at about 1.25x what your nanny makes, and guarantee that you won’t change the hours each weekend.

[Anonymous]

It's BS, imo, but it depends on your arrangement. If your nanny works FT and you have an agreement of paying her $x per week (which averages to ~$12/hour) and you ask her to babysit a couple hours on a weekend, I guess it makes sense to ask for $15 to make it worth their while.

However, if your nanny works for you on a PT basis and is hourly, then asking for a higher weekend rate is unreasonable.

[Anonymous]

Wait are you not planning to pay OT for the weekends and you're all upset about $7? You take the cake op. If I was your nanny I'd say I want OT for weekends. It's THE LAW, lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait are you not planning to pay OT for the weekends and you're all upset about $7? You take the cake op. If I was your nanny I'd say I want OT for weekends. It's THE LAW, lady.

OP is on board with that and already said she plans to pay OT. It's the random PP who resurrected this thread who seems confused. You can't pay hourly employees a "flat rate" for the week, and you have to pay overtime if they work over 40 hours. You don't have to like it, but that's the law.

[Anonymous]

She’s charging more because she doesn’t want to work weekends is my guess.

[Anonymous]

She’s charging more cause she doesn’t want to door. If she’s going to do it she needs more money to make it worth her time

[Anonymous]

She doesn’t want to do it i meant (not door)