Snow days in contracts

[Anonymous]

We have a new nanny that started but she's on a trial period so we're doing her contract since we like her.

question:
We are offering her 2 weeks paid, 5 PTO (sick, etc) but no snow days. Should the contract say that she can dip into her PTO (use it or lose it) or do most snow days go unpaid? Should I up the 5 to 7 to allow for the snow days? in addition, she gets all the holidays i get.

Please respond to my question if you're a MB or a rational nanny . No trolls.

[Anonymous]

I have snow days in my contract and am still paid during those days.

[Anonymous]

I think letting her use it as part of her 5 PTO days are fine. The only time I see not using a snow day towards that is if we were to get a really bad snowstorm where you wouldn't even want your worst enemy driving out in that stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think letting her use it as part of her 5 PTO days are fine. The only time I see not using a snow day towards that is if we were to get a really bad snowstorm where you wouldn't even want your worst enemy driving out in that stuff.

So you give you nanny's safety about as much concern as your worst enemy? Nice

[Anonymous]

I have in my contract that we will follow the federal government closings, and its considered "admin" leave, not deducted from my PTO. Most nannies get about 10 days of PTO, and they only get to control 5 of those days. In this area we get 3 or 4 snow days, sometimes more. Taking away the few leave days your nanny gets because of snow sounds like a recipe for tired bitter burnt out nanny.

Also, in reference to your condescending line at the end of your OP, MBs can be irrational too, and you have no way in knowing if the usual trolls are actually nannies, so try not relegating the rest of us to second class on our own board.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm an MB. If I ever have to hire another nanny I will put a snow day clause in our contract.

With our current nanny, when there is bad weather she either spends the night before with us, or we go pick her, or she gets the day off. She actually prefers to stay with us and work - whether or not we're home. So far it has worked just fine for us but that is a function of the individuals involved - we got lucky. In the future I'd put language in the contract to avoid all of the nastiness we're seeing on this topic here this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm an MB. If I ever have to hire another nanny I will put a snow day clause in our contract.

With our current nanny, when there is bad weather she either spends the night before with us, or we go pick her, or she gets the day off. She actually prefers to stay with us and work - whether or not we're home. So far it has worked just fine for us but that is a function of the individuals involved - we got lucky. In the future I'd put language in the contract to avoid all of the nastiness we're seeing on this topic here this week.[/quote

Nastiness? Are you kidding? We're nasty because our safety isn't important to so many.

[Anonymous]

We have work agreement language that basically says we will typically follow OPM, but on the occasion that OPM is closed but we have to work she is required to work or use PTO (she can opt for us to pay for safe transportation if we need her to work and she feels unsafe driving).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have work agreement language that basically says we will typically follow OPM, but on the occasion that OPM is closed but we have to work she is required to work or use PTO (she can opt for us to pay for safe transportation if we need her to work and she feels unsafe driving).

OP here. Thank you. This seems reasonable.

And regarding comment on irrational nannies, most things I have seen around this topic get nasty entitled responses from some bad apples. Then there are some wonderful , lucid responses from other nannies who I wished worked for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think letting her use it as part of her 5 PTO days are fine. The only time I see not using a snow day towards that is if we were to get a really bad snowstorm where you wouldn't even want your worst enemy driving out in that stuff.

So you give you nanny's safety about as much concern as your worst enemy? Nice

I care about a nanny's safety, but I don't need a nanny who will take advantage of very situation. And from reading other messages about snow days, you have nannies who do take advantage of the situation.

[Anonymous]

Our contract has a separate policy for bad weather based on federal government status since both my husband and I work for the gov't. If gov't is open and nanny decides to stay home, then she does not get paid. If gov't is closed and the nanny decides to stay home, then she gets paid half of what she normally makes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our contract has a separate policy for bad weather based on federal government status since both my husband and I work for the gov't. If gov't is open and nanny decides to stay home, then she does not get paid. If gov't is closed and the nanny decides to stay home, then she gets paid half of what she normally makes.

Wait, you go by federal closings, because you also have those days off, but you dock your nanny half her pay for staying home, even though you have the day off too Some of you people simply astound and disgust me. Wtf is wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

Nothing is wrong with me and it amazes me how some people spend more time on this board complaining about responses than actually responding to the original post. I simply don't give full pay on days when my nanny doesn't work due to weather. She is otherwise compensated quite well. When the federal gov't is closed, both my husband I are required to telework if we have childcare so we pay her in full if she works and only half if she doesn't. In case you haven't noticed the federal gov't closes even when things aren't that bad in every neighborhood in the metro area. In fact, I remember getting no snow once in downtown DC but because there was snow in all the burbs, the gov't closed. She is also free to use one of her vacation days so she is paid in full. I'm simply giving her the incentive to come to work assuming she is comfortable commuting in the conditions in our area but not leaving her completely without pay if she decides she can't make it.

[Anonymous]

There is a whole lot of drama on this thread for what amounts to very few snow days in DC.

I don't work for the Feds and I have very few snow days off. That said, I do have the flexibility to work from home occasionally. However, working at home requires me to have childcare. This is something nannies on this board seem to forget. Most employers that allow telework of any kind require childcare during the work day.

If I have a snow day and don't have to work, our nanny doesn't come in and she's paid.

If I don't have a snow day, but have to telework, I can adjust my schedule to make it easiest for our nanny's travel, but I would expect her to come in and this is specified in our contract. If she would like to take PTO and not come in on such a day, that's fine. She can use her PTO as she wishes.

If I have to go in and don't have a snow day, I expect her to come in. If she wants to take PTO or, if she is out of PTO and wants to take it unpaid, she can do that.

We are in open communication about this every possible snow day. All this nonsense about how people spend their spend their time and whether nannies are the same as office workers is just a lot of whining.

[Anonymous]

This is my guidelines when it comes to snow days if the nanny is not comfortable to drive or to drive home and either you or your husband can't drive to pick her up/ take children to her then you pay her if she can not work. Doesn't matter if its 1 day or 10.