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[quote=Anonymous][quote=nannydebsays][quote=Anonymous]PP. Why would she need to pay for the nanny's availability when the nanny is presumably already being paid to be at work?

$100/wk is over $5000/yr. That's not being cheap. Just sensible.[/quote]

As I outlined in my post, if OP wants nanny to be AVAILABLE to care for OP's child if needed during those 9 hours per week, then she needs to pay nanny to BE AVAILABLE.

Yes, nanny is already being paid for those hours. She is paid to BE AVAILABLE to care for the other family's child, not the OP's child.

Let's try this example. Nanny is NOT paid by OP to be available 3 days a week from 9a - 12p. Nanny arranges to take the other children (those she IS being paid to care for) on an outing from 9a - 12p. OP calls nanny at 10a and tells nanny she needs nanny to go and get OP's ill child at school. Nanny has EVERY RIGHT to refuse, because she is not being paid to BE AVAILABLE to care for OP's kid. However, if OP does pay nanny to be available, then nanny must leave her planned activity and take the other family's kids to go and get OP's child.

And if OP is paying $8/hour x 9 hours a week for availability, that's $72/week, or $3744/year. If OP cannot afford to pay that amount to have the nanny "on call", she may need to consider daycare.[/quote]

Sorry, that doesn't make any sense. It's one thing if a nanny is not being paid at all and might have personal plans. In that case, you paying a nanny to be 100% available to come into work. In most cases, I would assume she'd even have some duties during that time.
However, in this share, the nanny is already at work. If her employers agree that she needs to maintain the flexibility to take on care of the third child, then that is her job. If her employers agree that she needs to be able to do this with a weeks notice (say for school holidays, but not for a sick child) then that is her job.

Obviously, if she is taking care of all three children, she will be paid the full share rate. But I'd run from this share if the nanny and other family won't provide this type of flexibility /within the nanny's already paid and scheduled work hours/.

Honestly, as the other family, I'd be embarrassed to even consider this. Don't forget, when the full share rate is paid, the other family is also getting a discount. I would never ask another family to subsidize my nanny care by over $1000/yr so that they could have some flexibility in the hours they use in an emergency.

(Btw, with my two kids, in the past 10 years, I have twice had to pick up one in the middle of the school day. And those were both full school days. If you don't send a sick kid to daycare, the odds they will come down with an illness where they must be picked up before a 3 hour session ends is pretty miniscule. It's a flimsy excuse to base several thousand dollar per year flexibility fee on)[/quote]

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