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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for all the responses. To clarify:  her minimum weekly amount of $880 is based on a 40 hour work week, with 20 of those hours at a 2-child rate.  She has only worked for us for 3 weeks, and in those 3 weeks it turns out we are using her more like 50 hours per week.

Last week (the week of September 15th) she worked a total of 36.5 hours (10 hours with 1 baby, 18 hours with the other baby solo, and 8.5 hours of share with both babies). When you multiply those hours by the applicable rate per hour ($19 for solo hours and $25 for share hours), the total comes out to $745 for the week. She had 1 vacation day on that week.  We paid her the minimum of $880.  But it sounds like the concensus on this board is that we should be paying her $745 + $176 (1/5 of the weekly minimum).

We really didn't think that our contract with her worked that way -- if we give her a guaranteed weekly minimum AND we pay her a daily rate for 10 vacation days, 10 holidays, and 5 sick days, we are talking about an additional $4,400/year.  I thought that was the whole point of having a minimum.  Anyways, thanks for your help - all of this is so confusing![/quote]

If her contracted day is 8 hours, then yes, she needs to be paid 8 hours (averaged hourly rate) for every day you count as a vacation day. For an hourly worker, vacation, or paid time off, is actual hours you are paid for that you didn't work. So, she needs to be paid for an extra 8 hours, above what she worked, every time she uses a vacation day.  If she works OT, that has nothing to do with vacation. For an hourly worker, you can't shift hours around and then count the days off as "vacation."[/quote]

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