Benefits for part-time nanny - - how many sick days??
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| We are hiring a nanny to care for our infant; she will work 5 hrs/day 5 days/week in our home. We have agreed to 3 weeks vacation. I am wondering if it is also standard to give sick days and, in this part-time scenario, how many to give. We want her to be happy and feel valued, and so are happy to provide benefits. I'm just trying to get a sense of what the norm is on number of days. Thanks for your thoughts. |
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| Three weeks of vacation for a PT job is wonderfully generous, OP. Does she also get holidays? I would think 2-3 sick/PTO days would be more than adequate in this scenario. |
Anonymous
| OP here -- thanks for the reply. Yes, standard Fed holidays plus days after Thanksgiving. |
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That's a great package, OP - exactly the kind you need to offer, as an employer, to get a great nanny in for an afternoons-only PT job.
I still think 2-3 days PTO is completely reasonable, but I would encourage you to be clear on how the hours can be used. For example, I am FT and receive 5 sick days, but that actually means I receive 50 PTO hours as my days are 10 hours each - so if I go home five hours early one day, I still have 4.5 sick days left to use. If your PT nanny were to want to split up her PTO for any reason (she had to come in late or leave early), calculating it could be challenging - perhaps offer them to her as an hourly benefit (10-15 hours?) to simplify the process? |
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| Thanks so much for your helpful feedback! --OP |
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Yep; I would give her 75 hours of PTO. If she can use all three weeks however she wants, and you're also guaranteeing hours for the weeks you're away but she's available to work, then I wouldn't give any sick leave. I would just call it all "paid time off" to use as needed.
With our PT nanny, we only did two weeks of vacation, but made it all "her choice." I also told her she had to use it in 5-hour blocks (she also works 5-hour shifts). For other come-in-late/leave-early requests, we work it out case-by-case. Either it's unpaid, or she can make up the hour or two some other time. I would strongly encourage you not to give all three weeks up fron but to have it accrue over some period of time. It can be hard to keep PT nannies just because a lot of part timers are only doing it for a reason (another PT job, own business, kids in school) and move on more frequently than full-timers. Each time you hire someone new, if you give all the vacation up front, you'll be obligated to pay out 3 weeks of PTO to the departing nanny even if she hasn't been there long, and 3 weeks is a lot. Just something to consider. Maybe she earns x days per month, or one week after two months and all three after 6 or 8 or something like that. |