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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How complicated just to avoid paying OT smh. [/quote]

Um, no, you've missed the point completely.  I don't need full-time work during the school year, but I don't think that it's realistic to expect someone to make less 35 weeks of the year and more the remaining 17 weeks, so I'm trying to come up with a solution.  If you read my earlier post, you'll notice that it averages out to the employee working 35 hours/week but being paid for 40 hours year-round, so it more than compensates for overtime.  [/quote]

I'm not sure you really understand over time here. [b]Taking 5 hours away during the school year and then adding them on to summer doesn't equal things out. That extra 5 hours each week in the summer would not be her usual hourly rate of say $15/hr. [/b]You would be paying time and a half for those hours. So (using $15/hr rate) 35 hours week school year = $525 or the 40 you mention would be = $600. Just because you over pay the $75 each week during the school year, doesn't mean that summers she would normally earn just that $75 extra. It would actually be $15 x 40hrs = $600 then $22.50 x 5hrs = $112.50 (for a total of $712.50 a week). So you are stealing $37.50/wk OT from her by doing that 40 hrs/wk year round. It is not an "even trade".

The whole payment thing is illegal (non hourly rate, no actual OT payments) and you want to screw her out of money that she will have earned. You sound like a bad employer.[/quote]

You didn't read the hours correctly.  It is at least 8 hours a week less during the school year, which I've counted to be 32-34 weeks, and 5 hours more during the summer, for 17 weeks.  So the nanny makes more under my 40-hour year round rate than she would for overtime.  What I said was that the average throughout the entire year is 35 hours.

Here is how it breaks down.  Let's assume (for benefit of the doubt) that there are 37 school weeks (I think there are closer to 40, but let's assume 37).  37X$22= $704/week.  On the school weeks, it would be ((40x$22) + (6x$33))= 1078/week.  So 37 weeks at 704 =26048 + 18326= 44374.  a 40-hour work week is $45,760.  So my solution gives an extra $1350 or so.  (And it's actually better than that, because I was generous in counting non-school weeks). And the hours overall are less.

So, now that we all now that I am not cheating anyone out of overtie pay...let's get back to my question.  If you were a nanny would you be interested in this schedule?[/quote]

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