Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No, it's not reasonable to shift the hours. It is reasonable to ask her to come in and do some simple things like bring in the mail, water some plants, do any kid organizing projects that have been put off...that sort of thing.
+1
+2 This is what I state in my contract/work agreement. I'm available for pet-sitting (not house sitting as I have my own responsibilities at home), bringing in the mail, watering the plants, will go to the house to wait for a service call if required, do a closet clean out, full cleaning of the children's rooms/nursery/playroom, and so on, and I get paid fully for those weeks. If I want to coincide my own vacation with theirs and am not available for those things, it is unpaid (or taken as one of my scheduled vacation days if I prefer). I don't think anything else is fair for a FT nanny (35hr/wk+).
If she's a 3-hours-in-the-afternoon, 4-day-a-week nanny, it gets a little fuzzier for me as I don't have a lot of experience with PT benefits.