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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know that the standard paid leave is 2 weeks vacation (1 at family's choice, 1 at nanny's choice) and 5 days of sick leave but I'm wondering what DCUM thinks of the below option.

12 days total PTO (no distinction between sick/vacation).  4 days to be used at family's choice, the remaining 8 at nanny's choice.  Request one week advanced notice for use of 1 day or less and two weeks advanced notice for 2 days or more.  Up to 4 days can be carried over to the next year and any days remaining at the end of the year, up to 8 days, will be paid out.

All federal holidays will also be paid time off.

Thoughts?  Too little time?  Too much time at family's discretion?[/quote]

I think that is too little. If someone wants to go on a week's vacation then you are looking at 5 days. You cannot plan on when you are sick, sometimes it might happen that she can only give notice an hour before she were to start, when she might be getting up to get ready for work and realize there is no way she can actually manage to work that day.

I think the biggest thing is how many days a week does the nanny work? Is it just 4 days? Is that how you are coming up with 4 days for your vacation time? Generally the rule is 2 weeks vacation but this number of actual days might vary by how many days per week the position is for. A 3 days a week position, this could be 6 days of vacation time where as a 5 days a week position would have 10. I think you need to have at least 3 personal days (used as sick days or for doctor appointments - maybe those you could have her take half a day off, etc). So if 4 days, the 12 days you suggested could be doable. You will also want to make sure that if giving all federal holidays off paid, that you won't need to work any of them yourself and then have to ask her to work that day after all. It is quite common that some parents won't have all federal days off, so figure out which ones you can guarantee off paid, then any that you are unsure of, could be dealt with last minute, just giving her the day off paid but her expecting to work.[/quote]

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