Weekend Guaranteed Hours

[Anonymous]

I have ten hours guaranteed for my weekend job. I generally work 10 to 11 hours on Saturday and 10 to 11 hours on Sunday. This weekend I am not available on Saturday but am available on Sunday. However, MB is taking her charge away for the weekend (both Saturday and Sunday) and told me after I told her I was not available on Saturday.

How should I bill for guaranteed hours? The full 10 hours or just 5 hours? TIA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have ten hours guaranteed for my weekend job. I generally work 10 to 11 hours on Saturday and 10 to 11 hours on Sunday. This weekend I am not available on Saturday but am available on Sunday. However, MB is taking her charge away for the weekend (both Saturday and Sunday) and told me after I told her I was not available on Saturday.

How should I bill for guaranteed hours? The full 10 hours or just 5 hours? TIA

OP again. If I wasn't clear, I am asking if since I am only available for half my usual time should I bill for half my guaranteed hours? I love this family and they are very generous people. I don't want to wreck my relationship with them over five hours. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

only bill for half since she made the decision after finding out that you would not be available for saturday.

[Anonymous]

If she cancels her trip, what are you available for? Those are the hours you charge for.

[Anonymous]

I don't know. How long have you been working for her?
From my standpoint as an MB, the purpose of offering guaranteed hours is that you are always available during those hours. If you are taking a day or weekend off on a regular basis (and who could blame you), then you have violated that contract. The deal is not that I pay you whenever you happen to want to work, even if I don't need you. The deal is that you are always available, and I will pay you even if I don't need you.
Otoh, if you have been working for her for a year, and this is the first time you have taken off, then I would treat it like a weekday job and charge the full amount.

[Anonymous]

Guaranteed hours does not mean that your family guarantees to sit at home if you're out of town!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know. How long have you been working for her?
From my standpoint as an MB, the purpose of offering guaranteed hours is that you are always available during those hours. If you are taking a day or weekend off on a regular basis (and who could blame you), then you have violated that contract. The deal is not that I pay you whenever you happen to want to work, even if I don't need you. The deal is that you are always available, and I will pay you even if I don't need you.
Otoh, if you have been working for her for a year, and this is the first time you have taken off, then I would treat it like a weekday job and charge the full amount.

Only if she gets paid vacation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she cancels her trip, what are you available for? Those are the hours you charge for.

OP here. I am available for my usual Sunday hours which are generally 10 to 11 however I have once worked as few as 3 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know. How long have you been working for her?
From my standpoint as an MB, the purpose of offering guaranteed hours is that you are always available during those hours. If you are taking a day or weekend off on a regular basis (and who could blame you), then you have violated that contract. The deal is not that I pay you whenever you happen to want to work, even if I don't need you. The deal is that you are always available, and I will pay you even if I don't need you.
Otoh, if you have been working for her for a year, and this is the first time you have taken off, then I would treat it like a weekday job and charge the full amount.

OP here and I have only been working for this family for six weeks however I made this conflict (and need for the day off) known at hiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know. How long have you been working for her?
From my standpoint as an MB, the purpose of offering guaranteed hours is that you are always available during those hours. If you are taking a day or weekend off on a regular basis (and who could blame you), then you have violated that contract. The deal is not that I pay you whenever you happen to want to work, even if I don't need you. The deal is that you are always available, and I will pay you even if I don't need you.
Otoh, if you have been working for her for a year, and this is the first time you have taken off, then I would treat it like a weekday job and charge the full amount.

Only if she gets paid vacation.

Pp here, and I agree. I think it's odd that you would be offered guaranteed hours and not 4 days/yr of paid vacation. If I was your MB, I would have made it clear that you are taking this weekend as vacation and paid you for the weekend. I would check with your MB, but it seems to me that this is more of an informal arrangement, and she might not expect to pay you for any hours not worked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she cancels her trip, what are you available for? Those are the hours you charge for.

OP here. I am available for my usual Sunday hours which are generally 10 to 11 however I have once worked as few as 3 hours.

Did she still pay you for the full ten guaranteed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know. How long have you been working for her?
From my standpoint as an MB, the purpose of offering guaranteed hours is that you are always available during those hours. If you are taking a day or weekend off on a regular basis (and who could blame you), then you have violated that contract. The deal is not that I pay you whenever you happen to want to work, even if I don't need you. The deal is that you are always available, and I will pay you even if I don't need you.
Otoh, if you have been working for her for a year, and this is the first time you have taken off, then I would treat it like a weekday job and charge the full amount.

Only if she gets paid vacation.

Pp here, and I agree. I think it's odd that you would be offered guaranteed hours and not 4 days/yr of paid vacation. If I was your MB, I would have made it clear that you are taking this weekend as vacation and paid you for the weekend. I would check with your MB, but it seems to me that this is more of an informal arrangement, and she might not expect to pay you for any hours not worked.

OP here and I do not get paid vacation for this part-time job. This is not an informal arrangement.

So do you think I should just charge for half my guaranteed hours since I am only available for half of the time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she cancels her trip, what are you available for? Those are the hours you charge for.

OP here. I am available for my usual Sunday hours which are generally 10 to 11 however I have once worked as few as 3 hours.

Did she still pay you for the full ten guaranteed?

OP - it wasn't applicable since I worked 11 hours on that Saturday.

[Anonymous]

OP, its not clear from your post which day you are guaranteed the 10 hours. If its for sat then you shouldn't charge. If not and agreement was sat 5 hours and sun 5 hours you should charge the 5 hours.

[Anonymous]

The unusual thing about this arrangement is that you are blocking out up to 22 hours, but only guarenteed payment for 10. Is that right?

How does your schedule normally work? Do you normally work the entire 22 hours? Or, do you work partial days both days? Or, is this a weekend job situation where you might work the full 11 either day?

This is just my gut instinct, because this is an unusual arragenment, but here's how I'd approach it. The point of guarenteed hours is guarenteeing you an income that is under your control and guarenteeing the parent care. If it was a reasonable assumption that by taking of Saturday, you'd still be working a partial day Sunday, then that was what was cancelled, and I'd just charge the 5 hours. If you generally work the entire 22 hour period, then, you lost 10 hours of work and I'd charge the entire 10. However, if its a schedule that rotates heavily towards one day, ie you essentially cancelled that weeks entire care by cancelling Saturday, I'd charge nothing.