leave accrual

[Anonymous]

we employ a nanny 4.5 days a week - 4 days 9 hrs and 1 day 4 hours for a total of 40 hours/week. We offered her 5 days sick and two weeks vacation. So when she uses it, it would be 9 hours on the day she works 9 hours and 4 on the days she only works 1/2 day. Is that what is usually done? If she takes off the day that she only works 1/2 day it doesn't seem fair to be charged a whole day... but at the same time, it may seem unfair if she never takes off on that 1/2 day i.e. if she only is sick on the 9 hour days she is going to burn thru her leave a little faster. I did make an adjustment for 5 days of vacation (we pick 5 and she picks 5) as they ended up all being on the 9 hour day (45 total) - so only deducted 40 hours from her vacation.

I want it to be fair all the way around so am just wondering if I'm doing it correctly using hours instead of days?

thanks!

[Anonymous]

Our nanny worked a combination of 10 and 5 hour says, so we also gave PTO as an hourly bank. We also specified it had to be taken in minimum increments of 5 hours.

[Anonymous]

Ummmm no. You employ her 40 hours a week so that's 40 hours a week vacation. Seriously stop being so cheap, just give her 8hrs/vacation day duh,.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny worked a combination of 10 and 5 hour says, so we also gave PTO as an hourly bank. We also specified it had to be taken in minimum increments of 5 hours.

+1

[Anonymous]

would it not make more sense to count based on hours instead of days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ummmm no. You employ her 40 hours a week so that's 40 hours a week vacation. Seriously stop being so cheap, just give her 8hrs/vacation day duh,.

how exactly am I being cheap?? So if she takes "off" on the day she only works 4 hours (thus using up a whole day of leave), then you would be calling me unfair too. Can't have it both ways...

[Anonymous]

thanks for the two prior HELPFUL posters. I will continue with hours instead of days. Just wanted confirmation I was doing this correctly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny worked a combination of 10 and 5 hour says, so we also gave PTO as an hourly bank. We also specified it had to be taken in minimum increments of 5 hours.

I did this too, though we had 8 hour days, so increments of 4 hours.