Guaranteed hours + guaranteed pay, help with calculations

[Anonymous]

When negotiating my new contract I asked for a section guaranteeing my hours. It says that nanny is to be paid for any hours worked outside of the contracted schedule at the hourly rate, in addition to the guaranteed minimum weekly salary.

This is only my first week so I'm not sure how to handle it due to not having worked my first day because of a snow storm (MB told me not to come in), starting late one day, early another and staying late one day. I work 3 days per week.

This weeks pay, in my mind, should look like this:

-Day 1: snow day (guaranteed hours)
-Day 2 + .25 (worked 15 minutes past my contracted end time, but started 30 minutes later than contracted start time)
-Day 3 + .5 (started 30 minutes earlier than my contracted start time)
Total: base salary + .75.

With guaranteed hours and guaranteed pay does this calculation look right?

Due to the first day being a paid snow day, if they only pay me the guaranteed minimum I won't say anything because I don't want to start off on the wrong foot. Going forward I am scheduled to start 15-30 minutes early 1-2 days per week and also starting 30 minutes later 1-2 days per week (start time varies everyday within an hour due to MBs work), which will add to my base salary and I'm trying to fingered out how to calculate for future weeks. I know this is a little convoluted but for some reason the family did not want to structure the hours with the early start time included. If it were me I would have done the schedule like this..."earliest possible to start time" until "latest possible end time", however I don't think MB wanted to do it this way because the start and end times vary within an hour on either end and then they would've had to guarantee several extra hours per week that they may not use. With it structured the way it is, they will only pay for extra hours on the days they need them, but only pay the base hours on the days I start late.

Ugh, this seems even more confusing when trying to explain it!

[Anonymous]

If you are scheduled to start early and stay late on certain days from day 1, then you shouldn't be paid any extra for that. Those are part of the hours you are being paid for.

Also, since you just started and already got a free day out of it on day 1 maybe you should just let it be and not worry about it. Even if you don't say anything to MB about it if she doesn't pay you extra you are starting off on the wrong foot in your head by worrying about this.

[Anonymous]

I am sorry, OP, but I cannot follow what you are trying to calculate. You shouldn't have a weekly salary that is guaranteed but rather a set number of hours per week with corresponding date/times that are guaranteed. Beyond those set hours, you add on additional hours worked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are scheduled to start early and stay late on certain days from day 1, then you shouldn't be paid any extra for that. Those are part of the hours you are being paid for.

Also, since you just started and already got a free day out of it on day 1 maybe you should just let it be and not worry about it. Even if you don't say anything to MB about it if she doesn't pay you extra you are starting off on the wrong foot in your head by worrying about this.

I don't plan to question my pay this first week due to the free day. Like I said I don't want to start off on the wrong foot. I guess Ill see what my next few paychecks look like and go from there. You're correct in saying that I'm already worrying about it because of how the hours were structured.

[Anonymous]

Give it another week and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

If I was off because of a snow day, and then started late and finished later on 2 other days, I wouldn't include that time if it was less than 15 minutes. That's just my MO. If my time changes every week, then I would speak with her, about knowing what hours to expect. Simply for scheduling purposes. If I'm taking an evening class, I truly need to know when I'm getting off work. Explain it simply.

[Anonymous]

For now I'd drop iT. First week and snow day.
Your arrangement has a few things going on:
Weekly OR daily guarantees hours. Figure out which one.
Different start times. If these are set the neither you nor them get a bonus 30 mins twice a week. Just be straight fw here.
Snow days. Do your best to come in and always communicate with the family on conditions, their needs, expectations, etc. Again, guaranteed hours per day or week?