Federal Holidays

[Anonymous]

Are nannies generally paid for federal holidays (like tomorrow) when they don't work? I'm happy to have the day off tomorrow but it is going to be difficult to make ends meet at the end of the month.

[Anonymous]

This is generally something that should be negotiated in the contract.

Must they legally be paid? No.

But most nanny's negotiate for guaranteed hours, which means they get paid for their regular hours 52 weeks a year, regardless of any holidays or time off the family asks them to take (ie. the family's vacation, or any other time the nanny is available to work but the family tells her not to).

So if you're the ones that told her she had the day off, then the right thing to do is to pay her for the time she was available to work.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I am always paid for federal holidays when MB is home. As the previous poster mentioned, if you are available to work and your employer tells you not to come in, you should be compensated.
You should get this straightened out before Thanksgiving and Christmas when the parents usually take two days off at Thanksgiving and at least two days off during Christmas week.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I am paid for all federal holidays but like PP said that is something that has to be negotiated and written into your working agreement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are nannies generally paid for federal holidays (like tomorrow) when they don't work? I'm happy to have the day off tomorrow but it is going to be difficult to make ends meet at the end of the month.

Nanny yes
Babysitter no

[Anonymous]

Yes, if the nanny's normally scheduled to work on Mondays, you pay her on federal holidays, AND whenever you ask her NOT to come in, for whatever reasons you may have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I am paid for all federal holidays but like PP said that is something that has to be negotiated and written into your working agreement.

+1

[Anonymous]

This needs to be talked about up front. In our nanny's contract, she has 8 paid holiday days, but they are not all the federal holidays (for example, she gets the day after Thanksgiving, but not President's Day). We did it that way to reflect the days we have off work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This needs to be talked about up front. In our nanny's contract, she has 8 paid holiday days, but they are not all the federal holidays (for example, she gets the day after Thanksgiving, but not President's Day). We did it that way to reflect the days we have off work.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Yes, this needs to be a negotiated issue in the contract. Our nanny gets 10 paid holidays a year - they mirror the days I have off (so most federal holidays but day after T'giving in lieu of Veteran's Day).

It's part of her contract.