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[quote=Anonymous][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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An hourly employee in retail and food service industries are either PT if they have a different changing schedule weekly, or they are FT and have a pretty regular and consistant schedule. Even those working PT can have a pretty consistant schedule each week. I can walk into many places every Monday at noon and see the same people, and the same thing with other days of the week. Some work all mornings, some work mornings and afternoons but the days always stay the same (like Mon mornings, Tue afternoons, Wed afternoons, Thu mornings and Fri afternoons). Many work places do this with schedules that allow for college students to have regular classes mixed in with a regular work schedule. Or 2 different jobs even. They realize that they keep employees for longer if they can give a regular schedule as not as many people want to work a changing schedule and if they do work one then they lose them and have to rehire and train over and over again. Retail and food service already have a hire turnover rate, so the longer they can keep the good employees, the better for them.

A nanny if FT is putting all her time towards the one family yes, but if it was less hours on a regular basis, they could take on a SECOND family PT (or several other families for occasional work) to help with income. If the first FT family wants nanny to be available for all these hours on a regular basis, then paying to hold those hours with her is common. Just like a family that uses a daycare for most of the week but takes a day or 2 off now and then still pays to hold THEIR spot at the daycare. Sometimes if the day they want to not use is consistant (like every Friday), then they can find a daycare that won't charge for that day since the daycare can then offer that one day to another family/child. But if you didn't normally use that day, you wouldn't be able to expect them to take your child randomly on a Friday (with extra pay), it would be more of a situation where if the daycare has an available spot that day then you could. FT nanny is the same thing. The nanny could schedule another family or more during that time the first does not need her if it is a regular thing. The random and especially last minute (which happens a lot) days off unpaid are harder to fill and so this is why guaranteed hours are common.
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