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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she was in an office situation, at least my employers in the past (at the office) have been willing to work with employees to do some sort of leave without pay set up, and usually there's disability insurance that kicks in after 2 weeks out.  I doubt she has any sort of disability, but I believe standard disability pay is something like 60% of your salary.  I'd look into doing some sort of pro-rated pay or leave without pay, depending on what you think she needs/has earned.[/quote]

This is for salaried workers who have disability benefits. Salaried workers get told what the disability benefit is before starting the job just like Holidays are negotiated for nannies. By no means are you obligated to pay 60% of her salary to cover disability. It's not expected, it's not standard and actually is unheard of for hourly workers to get this benefit.

What you can do is offer as much flexibility as possible so she can work different hours to make her doctor's appt. If she cannot come in, she will have to take unpaid leave after her paid leave runs out. You deal with not having her help as much as you can.[/quote]

Disability pay is something that is offered in the "offer package" to salaried office workers. (The offer package is salary amount, benefits, holidays, etc.). It is provided by either the employee or the employer purchasing disability insurance through an insurance company, in advance, just like any other insurance. Sometimes the employer pays all or part of this insurance premium when the employee begins working. Sometimes the employee pays for this insurance out of their paycheck to have this benefit, just in case. In no case does an employer just start paying 60% of an employee's paycheck out of company money just because someone got sick and ran out of their sick leave. Once you use up your sick leave, you know if you have insurance to cover disability or not because either you paid for it or your employer is paying for it. If you have it, as it is the case for some lucky office workers, then good. If you do not have disability insurance then you are out of luck and you have to use unpaid leave, if your employer is nice enough to deal with you not being able to come in.

I do not want nannies out there thinking once they use up all their sick leave, they can get MB to pay for 60% of their usual pay.  Disability pay is not part of the usual benefits package for hourly workers.[/quote]

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