Part Time Nanny - Time Off Pay?

[Anonymous]

What is an appropriate vacation/paid time off policy for part-time nannies?

We have just hired our first nanny-- part-time, 20-25 hours per week. We will pay her a flat, weekly rate because some weeks we need her 20 hours, others closer to 25 hours.

TIA!

[Anonymous]

Does she work every day for 4 to 5 hours? Or two days a week for a long day?

[Anonymous]

Whatever you would give a full time nanny, prorated. So, if a full time nanny would get two weeks vacation, so should your part time nanny. The "two weeks" are just part time weeks instead of full time weeks.

[Anonymous]

First of all, there's no such thing as a "flat weekly rate". If you need her for 20 hours, you pay her for 20. If you need her for 5 additional hours, you pay her for 25.

Some approach this by paying the nanny for the full 25 hour time slot you need her to keep available for you. Others would pay the 20 hours and hope the nanny can do up to 5 hours extra of "overtime" when you need them.

When we had a part-time nanny, we gave her holidays and PTO the same way we would for a full-time nanny. So, our part-time nanny worked for 20 hours per week, and we gave her two weeks of PTO per year, so that would have been 40 hours in this case. We paid her for any holidays that fell on her usual work days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First of all, there's no such thing as a "flat weekly rate". If you need her for 20 hours, you pay her for 20. If you need her for 5 additional hours, you pay her for 25.

Some approach this by paying the nanny for the full 25 hour time slot you need her to keep available for you. Others would pay the 20 hours and hope the nanny can do up to 5 hours extra of "overtime" when you need them.

When we had a part-time nanny, we gave her holidays and PTO the same way we would for a full-time nanny. So, our part-time nanny worked for 20 hours per week, and we gave her two weeks of PTO per year, so that would have been 40 hours in this case. We paid her for any holidays that fell on her usual work days.

I assume that this is what the original poster meant. The woman has "guaranteed hours" for 25 hours a week, but sometimes only works 20. I assume she was basically asking if on vacation weeks, she should pay the guaranteed amount. The answer is yes.