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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"not standard at all"

MB here - I agree it needs to be negotiated. However I think it is "standard" in the sense that it is commonly granted. Just as paid holidays are "standard" in that they are commonly given in this area although that must still be negotiated.

Frankly this strikes me as a really weird issue. If you have enough money for multiple weeks of vacation every year (well beyond 2) it amazes me that you cannot also budget to pay your nanny each week. "Sorry, we need to go so Aspen for 2 weeks and then to Cancun for another 1 - see you when we're back!!" I'm sure that goes over great.[/quote]

+1 I don't get why this is such a common issue. Isn't paying your nanny part of your budget? Are you intending to redirect that money for vacations? If that's what you have to do to pay for vacations, perhaps you can't afford them. You'd basically have your nanny paying for your vacation. Not cool. [/quote]

You've touched on an important point PP, which is that most families can and do come up with an annual budget for childcare.  That budget can be sliced up in any number of ways based on the nanny's priorities.  She wants insurance and PTO?  No problem, but the cost of those perks will probably be reflected in a lower hourly rate.  She doesn't care about PTO but has a fixation on being able to tell people that she gets $20 per hour?  Fine, because money and PTO are usually fungible from the parents perspective.

So the problem is not that families can't budget for guaranteed weekly pay, and it is not that the request itself is unreasonable.  The problem is that nannies deprive the employer of the [i]opportunity[/i] to budget for it by failing to clearly make the request until after the parents have agreed to an hourly rate request, effectively applying their child care budget solely to that one form of compensation.  And many parents are truly blindsided by the request when it arises a few months into the nanny's tenure, because in most segments of the economy, an hourly rate job as opposed to a salaried job means the employee gets paid only when she actually works.[/quote]

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