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Do you guarantee your nanny a set number of hours or weeks of pay? Why? Why not?

We never explicitly stated that we would but DH and I decided to do this regardless.  Our nanny has bills to pay that don't stop just because something came up and we didn't ask her to come to work (ex: hurricane Sandy--we stayed home and told her to do the same and stay safe). Plus we want to do as much as we can to ensure she is happy and feels secure in employment and will not look for another position.

my first job was hourly and it was terrible stressing about whether I would make enough to cover bills because office was unexpectedly closed.  I don't want my nanny to worry about that kind of stuff either.

If you take a day off here or there is your nanny still paid. What is the benefit in doing this?  Absolutely.  She was willing to work and it was our choosing that she not (for vacation or weather related issues etc) We also do not count this against her PTO (I have heard some families saying things like 2 weeks PTO--one week family choosing, one week nanny choice.)  Our vacation is our choosing and should not count against nanny.  So any random days/time off that DH or I take are in addition to the two weeks PTO that we specified at beginning of employment.   Same reasons as above.

If your nanny works 8.5 hours do you subtract the .5 to account for a lunch break. The lunch break doesn't allow for nanny to leave the home.  
No.  Who does this?!? lunch is not really a break for a nanny.  DS was very needy so early on lunch for her still involved holding him in her lap.  Now he can nap on own but still--she is there and present and on duty.

How many federal holidays are PTO. 
All federal holidays plus the day after Thanksgiving (which is not officially a federal holiday on OPM calendar and thus not a day off for me... but is off for most other companies and just a nice thing to do).

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