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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I are first time working parents, and we've recently hired a nanny to care for our ten week old son. We both have schedules that can vary a fair amount from week to week, but have committed to paying our nanny $20 an hour for at least 35 hours every week.  Our question is whether it is at all reasonable to expect some flexibility on weeks that we don't even come close to using her services for 35 hours, and yet still pay her the full $700.  For example, we are going out of town Wednesday-Friday one week, so she'll only be looking after our son Monday and Tuesday of that week.  As per our agreement, we are still going to pay her for a full 35 hour work week despite the fact that she will only be working for 14 hours that week.  Would it then be completely unreasonable to ask her to "make up" a small portion of those unworked hours the next week, so that she perhaps works 40 hours that next week for the same base rate given that she was paid for 26 hours she didn't have to work the week before? Any advice would be very appreciated.[/quote]

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