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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My agreement with my nanny is the legal requirement (8 hours unpaid rest time) as long as the kid does not wake up between 10pm-6am which is about $150 extra to her normal 10 hour days. If the nanny has to get up during the night to care for the kid, it is regular rate for all overnight hours which is like $350 since all those hours are OT. We also comp food delivery or whatever she reasonably needs during that time. I think if we needed just one night we wouldn’t do anything extra, but if it was multiple nights in a row we’d give some kind of “bonus” for that week.
I know it’s rough being away from home but do think that the inconvenience is made up by the fact the nanny gets OT for a number of generally quiet hours. Maybe this is because I travel a lot for work with 6am or 10pm flights and sleep in different hotels quite a bit with no extra pay and find it not that bad if you develop a routine.[/quote]

When you travel for work do you have to stay in your hotel room?  Are you responsible for anyone’s life in that hotel room besides your own?

I travel for work all the time as well and I am not confined to my hotel room nor responsible for getting anyone else out in case of a fire besides myself.

There is no comparison with what our nannies do overnight.  [/quote]

No need to get snippy. I am simply sharing what I do. I understand other people will have different arrangements or priorities on compensation. It seems to work for my nanny and sure, maybe not every other nanny. Mine doesn’t happen to have kids or pets at home so the inconvenience to her may be less than for someone who does and needs to make a lot of other arrangements. But my nanny seems to think that’s fine in the overall context of the job, especially as we use overnights extremely rarely.

And no, usually when i travel for work I have to stay in a conference room with my team until midnight. And then get up at 7am to do it again. Whether I work 50 or 90 hours a week, my pay stays the same. Of course there is no comparison with what my nanny does. As I said, if she ends up having to do more work (whether the house burns down or the kid just has a nightmare and needs help getting back to bed) she will get paid more.[/quote]

You are a dreadful employer.  NP here and you are truly awful! [/quote]

I’m not sure why you say this. I follow the legal requirement on pay and choose to go beyond the legal requirement in the areas that are more valuable to either our nanny or my family. Like full healthcare, 5-6 weeks of vacation every year, bonuses and gifts during travel (which I recognize is much more inconvenient than an in-town overnight) etc. If the overnights were a hardship on her such that she needed $500 extra to make it worth her while, I would probably find an alternative solution.[/quote]

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