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[quote=nannydebsays][quote=Anonymous]We recently hired a nanny on trial for our 10 month old baby. The deal is after a few weeks, if we like her, we will go into a 1-year contract. We previously paid our nannies $15/hr, some were terrible and some were good except something went wrong (calling in frequently, dropping the baby). So this time, we offered $18/hr, 40 hours a week. We went over in detail what she needed to do during the day as far as light housekeeping. All of them pertained to the baby and we made that clear. Frankly she's been coming in every morning and doing everything. Our bed, scrubbing the bath tub and toilet, picking up after mine and my husbands mess. We never asked her to do these things but went along with it and took on anything we could get to if she hadn't before us. I don't work but have my own agenda. I don't want to clean on her schedule when I have other things going on. I'll clean my mess at my own leisure (and we're not very messy).

Anyways, she asked for a raise on her second week of working with us. She now wants $20.50/hr for cleaning up after us. This is for one baby in the Dupont Circle area. We live in a one bedroom apartment and there isn't really that much to clean. Another concern I have is that she is not focusing on the baby enough and wants to do other things (like clean), so does that make her a good candidate as his nanny? She has about 10 yrs experience and no college education. I feel like we are being taken advantage of since we are fortunate young adults. Does anyone else think so?

Also, how does the lunch hour work? She works 8 hours straight (10am-6pm) and eats when she pleases. I'd like to start working again soon and that will require a 9.5 hour work day for her. If someone has a nanny contract sample they could send me I would greatly appreciate it.[/quote]

I hate the people who always call "troll", but your post makes me wonder if this is real. You've had that many nannies in less than 10 months? Then something is off with your screening and hiring practices, or the wages you offered in the past were low for your area.

As for this nanny, you sit down with her and explain that you want her to focus on baby only. You tell her you appreciate her housekeeping efforts, but you want her to stick to the agreed chores at this time since you want her to do XYZ with baby. You then remind her of the wages she agreed to when taking the job, and go back over her gross weekly pay ($720), her withholdings, and so on. THEN, you remind her that at X time you will be returning to work, and her hours will increase to 47.5 per week, which raises her weekly gross to $922.50.

As far as lunch hours go, nannies don't get one unless your state or local government has passed a law forcing employers to offer unpaid break time through the day. She can eat when she wants, eat while baby eats, what have you, but unless you plan to come home from work and let her leave to get lunch daily, a "lunch break" is not a concern.

If she continues to clean, and lobby for a raise, you'll need to start looking again and trying to find a nanny who prefers to teach kids, not scrub toilets.[/quote]

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