GH if family goes on vacation while nanny is already on vacation
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Anonymous
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Here's a situation.
Let's say a nanny, paid under guaranteed hours, schedules a week-long vacation and uses her PTO. While she's gone (already in a faraway tropical location, therefore unavailable), the family takes a 4-day trip away - Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Nanny comes back and finds out about this trip, and believes she should get 2 days of PTO back, because the family went away on those days, so technically that would fall under her GH arrangement. What if the family trip was a last-minute decision and not planned around nanny's vacation? What if it was? Who is in the right here? Thank you! |
Anonymous
| LW adding for context: Nanny works 40 hour work week M-F and has standard PTO and competitive rates. |
Anonymous
| The nanny doesn't get to dictate what the family does while she is on vacation. Nanny is wrong. Family should start looking to replace her. |
Anonymous
| come on, this is ridiculous, nannies do not do that, family is free to go where they want when nanny takes her vacation. Are you a troll, op? |
Anonymous
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The Nanny scheduled hers first. She uses PTO.
The family might as well go away if they need to take off for childcare anyway. |
Anonymous
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LW.
Thanks for the opinions. Well, if family planned a vacation first and then left, Nanny would be paid under GH. I'm assuming it be considered weaselly of the family to try to st their PTO to match nanny's, to not pay extra under GH. |
Anonymous
| Wow of course nanny uses PTO in that situation. This must be a troll, or the most entitled nanny yet. |
Anonymous
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Nanny chose her vacation dates first and family planned around that. Nanny absolutely uses her own PTO for the entire week.
Explain to nanny it is the same if the reversed. If family chooses a week of vacation, nanny can go out of town, babysit for someone else that week, or whatever they want without counting against their own PTO days. |
Anonymous
No that is ridiculous. If my nanny is on vacation, then I’ll need to take off work at least some of the days. That doesn’t mean I have to sit around the house on those dates, I’m going to plan something fun with the kids, or take a trip! Doesn’t mean she is now going to get paid for that time. |
Anonymous
What is LW? |
Anonymous
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I'm usually on the Nanny's side because some of you are very cheap & want to wring the last dollar out of the human being who you trust to raise your children but here I agree with the employer.
Even if the family waits on purpose to plan a trip while nanny is away, Nanny planned her trip, asked for time off & is hopefully rejuvenating herself. Family needs something to fill the void & it's ok to leave home. |
Anonymous
| She choose to use PTO. The family only went on vacation because they didn't have child care. That is absurd not to use PTO for her planned and chosen vacation. If they family planned it first, no PTO. If the family only choose that week because they lacked child care, then PTO. |
Anonymous
Sorry, I meant OP. LW like letter writer in advice columns. Wires got crossed in my brain. |
Anonymous
The parents are without child care and have to use their own leave or hire additional help while they are paying the nanny her salary. If you take leave, you get pto. |
Anonymous
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I agree w/the responses on here that the Nanny should not receive two days of PTO just because her employers took the R/F off that she would have worked if she wasn’t on vacation.
I wanted to clarify something here OP. When you say your Nanny was using her PTO to vacation somewhere >> did you mean she was using her vacation pay or did she already use that & was just using her PTO hours? Not that this would affect my answer - I guess I was just wondering… |