Asking For Fewer Hours/Renegotiating Contract = WWYD?
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casfolk
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65 hours a week, live-in, have been with family for a year. Hours have increased throughout the year.
Would like to transition to live-out, and/or request that family hire a part-time nanny or afternoon sitter to take over 10 or 15 hours. How would you suggest approaching this? |
Anonymous
| Are there two parents? What are they doing that they hardly see their child? |
casfolk
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Two working parents, busy executive careers. I have my opinions, but I really don't want to sink into MB/DB bashing. 
I would like to stay with the family, but I need more downtime. |
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Ok. I'm not about bashing either. It's makes a different if their needing 65 hours is respectable or not, at least to me. I'd have a sit down meeting with both parents. (It's that possible?) Have a heart-to-heart discussion with them and see how they feel about wanting to keep you, or not. They may want another 65 nanny, or even more. So you need to be prepared for a new job as soon as they can replace you. Bless you for all your work. I hope you are well paid for that many hours. Do you have time to do anything for yourself? |
Anonymous
| I would present it as a cost benefit to them, and offer to help find and train the person they hire. Right now they are paying you a butt load in OT, but giving 10-15 of you hours to someone else saves them the OT and gets them a more rested nanny. I don't know how trying to move to being a live-out would work, as they still need the hours they need, and likely haven't budgeted to pay live out wages, since they went the live in route to begin with. |
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| Are they paying you on the books, time and a half OT wages? |
casfolk
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The job was presented as live-in or live-out (they've hired both in the past). I accepted the position as a live-in to save rent $$ for a year.
They are paying me on the books, but a flat weekly salary. Well, technically an hourly rate + OT with guaranteed hours. The 65 hours would be much more doable for me if I were able to really leave work at the end of the day, but that isn't a possibility as a live-in. I may propose to restructure the compensation package at an hourly rate for 45-50 hours a week, and help them find and train an afternoon/evening nanny. It might be a pay cut for me, but it would still be live able and I would have my space. And hopefully the ability to cultivate a social life. :/ I try to foster longevity in my positions, and don't like leaving any sooner than two years when at all possible. |
Anonymous
| It would of course need to be a pay cut for you OP - otherwise why would they agree to cut your hours and pay even more to someone else?9 |
casfolk
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| Yes, obviously. I was just iterating that a paycut + personal life is more important to me than larger salary + no life. Clearly I wouldn't expect my employers to pay me for 65 hours a week, cut that by almost a third, and still pay me the same amount while hiring a second nanny! |
Anonymous
| Agree with 10:30 then. To stress that you really like your job but need to work with them to help them find someone to cover some of these OT hours so that you can get the balance back in your life needed to keep doing a great job with their kids. |