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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I only take positions with salary.  We word the contract in such a way that the salary is for x number of hours at y rate, paid every week, any unused hours are banked for holiday weeks/crazy traveling weeks, and any banked hours left at the end of a year are dropped and we start fresh.  It gives me a salary that doesn't change so that I can make concrete plans for it, and the family has the flexibility to know that I will cover whatever is needed.  The only thing that has created a problem is when the family didn't have enough banked hours, and the contract stipulates that I will be paid time and a half for those hours at the hourly rate, and the family wanted to have another bank so that they could use the hours and give me random hours off later.  The issue I had with it was that they didn't want to tell me when they would be off, so that I could plan.  It's one thing if mom gets home early and says 1.5 hours is going in the bank, it's another if the family wants 20+ extra hours for a week, but wants to give 15 and 30 minutes here and there over several months to make up for the insane week.[/quote]

You are being shortchanged, PP.  "Guaranteed hours" does guarantee a salary every week whether they use you for those hours or not.  And anything over your guaranteed hours is paid at your usual rate of overtime if it puts you over 40 hours for that particular week.  You would be earning much more money than doing it your way.  And no "banking hours" - that is just insane.

Btw, salary and banking hours are both illegal.  [/quote]

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