Should new nanny be paid for Labor Day?

[Anonymous]

Had this happen to me twice as a nanny. One family didn't pay me for the holiday, the other did. Guess which family was kind and generous and all around awesome?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had this happen to me twice as a nanny. One family didn't pay me for the holiday, the other did. Guess which family was kind and generous and all around awesome?

Now you know what question to ask in your next nanny interview!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Had this happen to me twice as a nanny. One family didn't pay me for the holiday, the other did. Guess which family was kind and generous and all around awesome?

Now you know what question to ask in your next nanny interview!

Seriously?

Um. No.

If a new boss decides to pay you for a holiday before you start that is incredibly gracious and generous. If a prospective employee asks if they will be paid for a holiday before they start that's career limiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Had this happen to me twice as a nanny. One family didn't pay me for the holiday, the other did. Guess which family was kind and generous and all around awesome?

Now you know what question to ask in your next nanny interview!

Seriously?

Um. No.

If a new boss decides to pay you for a holiday before you start that is incredibly gracious and generous. If a prospective employee asks if they will be paid for a holiday before they start that's career limiting.

Of course not seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Had this happen to me twice as a nanny. One family didn't pay me for the holiday, the other did. Guess which family was kind and generous and all around awesome?

Now you know what question to ask in your next nanny interview!

Seriously?

Um. No.

If a new boss decides to pay you for a holiday before you start that is incredibly gracious and generous. If a prospective employee asks if they will be paid for a holiday before they start that's career limiting.

I'm the original quoted poster. I would never ask this in an interview, BUT if it happens to be a situation that comes up, how the family chooses to handle it can definitely tell you something about them. If they are reasonably generous, they won't think anything of paying you for a full weeks pay as they have agreed. If they are nickel and dimers, who think of themselves first, they won't pay and they'll feel justified doing so. If I'm scheduled to start with a family the week of a holiday and I see that they edit my official start day to be the Tuesday after the holiday, I would hand them back their contract and let them know that I don't think we are a great fit. Who wants chintzy bosses?

[Anonymous]

There's "chintzy" and "entitled" then there are norms. The norm is to be paid for agreed-upon paid holidays that occur after you start a job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's "chintzy" and "entitled" then there are norms. The norm is to be paid for agreed-upon paid holidays that occur after you start a job.

Yes, exactly.

I'm seriously at risk of being drawn into an absurd classic DCUM fight but the bit about employers being cheap if they don't pay you for a holiday that occurs before your first workday is just completely out of touch w/ reality.

[Anonymous]

Frankly, the mother and father aren't working Labor Day, because it's a holiday, so no they wouldn't have ever wanted the nanny to start on that day. So no pay.

If I worked for any company, and was hired to start on January 2nd because January 1 is a holiday, I would begin getting paid starting January 2nd. I would earn that holiday pay the NEXT year, but not that year. But, for MLK day later in January, i would certainly be paid for that holiday because I was an employee at that company at that time.

And, yes, the reason I didn't start on January 1st was because the company was closed, but that's the shakes.