pt nanny--what benefits should they get?

[Anonymous]

We are interviewing nannies for 14hr/week position. A couple nannies asked if they get paid sick days, holidays (federal and paid if we go out of town and don't need them on assigned days) as well as pay for snow days. What do others do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are interviewing nannies for 14hr/week position. A couple nannies asked if they get paid sick days, holidays (federal and paid if we go out of town and don't need them on assigned days) as well as pay for snow days. What do others do?

14 hrs? Not much other than guaranteed hours.

[Anonymous]

I think guaranteed hours and somewhere around 20-30 hours of PTO would be a reasonable, generous package. Holidays would depend on her work schedule.

I'm not a believer in "whatever happens to fall on your scheduled days" because this benefit is so variable depending on schedule. Our PT household employee works 12 hours a week and is guaranteed 6 hours of holiday PTO on the week of Christmas and Thanksgiving (can use it on any workday that week, even if the holiday isn't a scheduled day) , but not on any other federal holiday. SHe doesn't work on Mondays, so this way its a defined benefit and not a crapshoot year to year.

However, if your setup includes a full workday on Monday, PTO for all federal holidays, although generous, would really be excessive.

[Anonymous]

We gave our part-time nanny (25 hrs per week) guaranteed hours, and 25 hours of paid leave (essentially a week). She gets a few federal holidays pd as well (but not all cause my husband and I do not get them all). She also asked us to guarantee other holidays off which we agreed.

[Anonymous]

Interesting you should ask.

There is actually nanny posting on the job board every day (I assume to get to the top of the list) desiring a part time position asap with benefit requirements more akin to a FT position --and so much emphasis on the many things she won't do (ie-no kids laundry, no tidying up, no kid errands, no kids meals etc)

I am not surprised she cant find a job and has been posting forever. I skipped over her post as did all my friends hiring for part time because she has unrealistic benefit and job expectations for a PT position are way out of whack with what a PT position actually is (plus she generally sounds like a PIA to work with as she is inflexible)

Op-the only real benefits for a PT nanny that are usual are PTO and some holidays...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting you should ask.

There is actually nanny posting on the job board every day (I assume to get to the top of the list) desiring a part time position asap with benefit requirements more akin to a FT position --and so much emphasis on the many things she won't do (ie-no kids laundry, no tidying up, no kid errands, no kids meals etc)

I am not surprised she cant find a job and has been posting forever. I skipped over her post as did all my friends hiring for part time because she has unrealistic benefit and job expectations for a PT position are way out of whack with what a PT position actually is (plus she generally sounds like a PIA to work with as she is inflexible)

Op-the only real benefits for a PT nanny that are usual are PTO and some holidays...

LOL, you mean "Maria"?

She's spent way too much Time on this website and as a result, her demands are resulting in no offers.

[Anonymous]

As an act of goodwill, I would probably offer guaranteed hours since she may be depending on this income for her living needs.

And sick days paid would be a nice gesture.

People may think it is unnecessary to add benefits for less than 20 Hrs. per week, but I disagree.

Happy Nanny = Happy Child.

Happy Child = Happy Parent.

Win Win.

[Anonymous]

*part of her living needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are interviewing nannies for 14hr/week position. A couple nannies asked if they get paid sick days, holidays (federal and paid if we go out of town and don't need them on assigned days) as well as pay for snow days. What do others do?

14 hours guaranteed will take care of any holiday or day you go out of town. No sick days.

[Anonymous]

Minimum of guaranteed hours, and paid holidays if they fall on a work day. 14 hours paid time off for sick or personal days would be fair as well, but not absolutely necessary. I have worked part-time for many years and that is what I usually ask for and receive.

[Anonymous]

We've had a PT nanny for 2 days a week for a few years now. We pro-rate a normal benefit package. For instance, she gets 2 weeks vacation (4 days) and 1 week sick (2 days). She gets 3 paid federal holidays off of her choosing. The rest she can choose to work for pay or have off unpaid. (We're also pretty flexible with her, though, if things come outside that time.)