Shifting hours

[Anonymous]

No I am not the OP of another similar post. I am an after school nanny for a SAHM. I have a contract which specifies my regular hours including my flexibility to stay one hour late. When I first started I was working my regular hours and occasionally staying late for additional pay. Usually the days I had to work late were known many days in advance.

Now suddenly, my MB is shifting my hours on the days she wants me to work late. So for example if I usually work 1-5, she is asking for 2-6 instead. Still the same amount of hours. So I am basically working late for no additional pay - which is usually the incentive to stay late. And most days I am only told of the change either the day before or the day off, so it makes planning anything in my off time very hard. Plus I don't like getting home an hour later every night.

Do I have any grounds here to say anything? Such as, I am happy to work one hour late occasionally, with advance notice, but I would still like to be able to work my regular hours, so that staying late would be extra income for me.

[Anonymous]

Of course you can say that, but you should also consider whether or not you want to keep the job if it moves more often to 2-6. You can be annoyed about the shift, but if it really doesn't matter (you just don't like how she's handling it), that's a different conversation than saying that you don't want to do the job under these new circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, Op, but you're wrong. You aren't "basically working late for no additional pay - which is usually the incentive to stay late." You are working the same hours, just scheduled differently. Personally, I would not pay your more for the situation you describe. Not that that matters, because I wouldn't randomly change a nanny's schedule.

It's fine to be annoyed at the schedule change. I would be, too. But if the MB decides she needs coverage for a different set of hours, the only recourse you really have is to find a new job with hours that better match what you want. I don't think you can expect her to pay more for a schedule shift. That just isn't reasonable.

Of course, if you talk to her and tell her the schedule change is a deal killer for you and you will leave, she may revert to your old schedule. The risk in that is that she might also fire you before you have a chance to secure a new position. Which would be tough because ideal PT jobs are hard to come by. GL.

[Anonymous]

You absolutely have a right to say something here OP.

She is changing your schedule on you so she needs your permission to do so!!

Make sure she gets it before she lets you know.