Went home sick, should I offer to make up the day?
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Anonymous
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I went to work this morning and started feeling ill and vomiting - so I called to let my boss know I was under the weather. I apologized profusely and Mb and DB were more then understanding. Luckily the kids grandparents were staying with them so the grandma came to relieve me immediatly and sent me
Home. My question is, As a saliared employee should I offer to make it up on one of my days off or just leave it? I don't want to offend them By apologizing an offering to make up time but I also don't want them to think I don't care that they lost out. We don't have a real system for sick days so I just don't want to seem ungrateful for how awesome they were about the change in plans. |
Anonymous
| Sure, you can offer. But I imagine they will not expect that you do it. It's still a thoughtful gesture to offer. |
Anonymous
| I wouldn't set that precedent. |
Anonymous
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1. Nannies are NOT salaried employees, they are HOURLY.
2. You were sick and you do not need to mske up the time, take hours off your PTO. |
Anonymous
+1 next time you take a jun, make sure you set and hourly rate, and get OT for and time over 40 hours. |
Anonymous
Can you please post a link to that law? TIA. |
Anonymous
| Op here; I don't know alot about wages in salary vs. hourly. More or less I'm paid monthly assuming I work 50 hours or less than a week (any extra hours and I would be comlpensated). I guess it was explained to me as a salary but perhaps this isn't the true definition.. |
Anonymous
I am not the quoted PP but I agree that legally, nannies are supposed to be hourly employees not salaried. I've seen many post links to this law on DCUM. You can also google search a few terms and it will probably pop up. |
Anonymous
| You are guaranteed hours, different than salary. I would not offer to make up the time as you should be allotted sick time. Simply thank them for being understanding. |
Anonymous
| I'd offer a date night if you feel the need to make up the houses but no need to make up the full day. If you are reasonable and don't have a set schedule, to me, I'd rather you go home and feel better, especially if I had back up care. |
Anonymous
| I would count it against your sick days. If you have unlimited sick days, then it's fine. |
Anonymous
| No, you shouldn't offer. |
Anonymous
| No..wtf? You were sick. |
Anonymous
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The Fair Labor Standards Act ( FLSA)specifically calls out domestic employment (housekeepers, maids, nannies, etc.) in the statue as non-exempt employees, covered by the rules and protections of the FLSA. The IRS has commented this is not a grey area, subject to individual interpretation.
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Anonymous
You shouldn't be salaried in the first place (hourly only), but if you have guaranteed hours then they can say they pay an average of $15/hr which equals x amount a week. In that type of situation, you have guaranteed hours and so if you don't work due to being sick etc, then you still get paid. So you WOULDN'T offer to make up the hours unless you really didn't care about your own time or felt you really owed them that time back. If you have no set sick day time, then you obviously need to talk to your MB/DB. This is the type of stuff that normally goes into contracts. Even if you have no written contract for some reason, you should ALWAYS have discussed this type of stuff before starting the position and have a verbal agreement in place, and have it written down someplace (like in an email to each other) for future reference. |