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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A clarification on how guaranteed hours will be handled when grandparents are in town or the parents' schedule otherwise changes - i.e. you cannot ask me to leave early Tuesday and Wednesday and make those hours up on Saturday. I am available for my scheduled hours and am happy to work, but if you don't need me I still get paid (like a daycare). This is never an issue until it is, and then it's uncomfortable for everyone, so I put it in the work agreement very explicitly.

Employers will provide a written letter of recommendation every four months, for use in applying to PT jobs etc. It's also a nice way to get a written review regularly.

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I hear enough about how important guaranteed hours is to those in the nanny field on this bulletin board. It's a nice idea too. But other hourly workers, like those working in retail or food service, your hours change every week and if you are not working, you do not get paid. Mention the idea of guaranteed hours to your boss at the local diner and you will get laughed off the interview.

Daycares are a different situation. They have a business where they have an "opportunity cost." If you take up a child slot and only come and pay for 20% of the time, then they are losing money that they can get from another child who did not reserve. A nanny is a nanny for ONE family and their rates are already much higher than daycare. You do not have opportunity costs that you missed out on because if you move to another family, they will eventually have scheduling problems too.

"Employers will provide a written letter of recommendation every four months." Wishful thinking, again. How about every 4 months, I evaluate you and tell you that you need to be better about cleaning up and not leave crumbs around and nitpick. It's really the same thing because a letter of reference should really be honest and feedback should be a 2 way street. Sounds like you are afraid of getting a bad reference so you want to have a good letter of reference in your back pocket at all times. The world just does not work this way. That's why it's wishful thinking.
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