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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I am a nanny and my husband and I are expecting our first child in March. My boss has been great about everything and completely understands and supports me. She even lets me take my dr appointments during work hours while both the kids are in school. She has now offered to let me bring my baby to work with me after I return from my maternity leave in May. I was thinking this would be great. However, she noted that she would reduce my salary by around $600 per month. I currently get paid $13.25 per hour (in Arizona) for 50 hours per week. She wants to reduce my salary all the way down to $10 per hour once I come back to work as compensation for the benefit of bringing baby with me. She also made a point to say that she does not want her boys (ages 4 and 7) to have to work around the baby's schedule. Um okay? I am starting to wonder how practical it would be to bring my baby to a job with two school age kids. It seems it might be easier if I found a family with another infant. I have nannied for twin infants before, so that would not bother me. But do any of you think her offer is fair? My husband is not happy about it at all. He feels reducing my salary slightly would be fine, but as much as she is talking about seems extreme. I will be getting this so-called benefit but still have to make sure that her boys (who are more than capable of entertaining themselves on occasion) have my full, constant undivided attention while making my baby secondary and getting a huge pay cut on top of that. Thoughts? [/quote]

The salary reduction sounds perfectly fair, this is coming from a nanny. If you don't want the reduction, use that money you are still earning by not bringing your child with you, to pay for daycare. You can't expect to have a family let you bring your child to work (and an infant that will need your attention at times where you shouldn't delay by doing something else instead) and not put full attention on their own kids. That is why they got a nanny in the first place. If you don't like that idea, then don't bring your own child.

It never stops to amaze me when nannies think that just because it is an older child that you should put more focus on your own child at times. I think if your child is also an older kid that doesn't constantly need immediate attention or the type of attention where you cannot easily stop for a few minutes while focusing on the other kids (like when you are trying to put down for a nap, feed and burp etc) that it could work ok at times. There are times you are going to need to put your infant first and that will not go over well with many families. [/quote]

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