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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think OP is just trying to make it not cost prohibitive to use the nanny -- at the nannys discretion -- for occasionally babysitting. My nanny would like to work for us as a babysitter on occasional weekend evenings when we have nothing else going on, but we can't afford to pay her the $30/hour that would cost when we can get a perfectly good sitter for $15. (The kids are usually asleep, so we don't need a professional nanny to watch them and it is way easier than her normal gig for us with two mostly awake children.) [b]We love our nanny though, so would be willing to use her at our normal $20/hour rate and just eat the difference; she would love that. [/b]Is there a way to have the nanny contract only apply to standard hours during the week and not weekend hours or is anything beyond 40 hours automatically OT covered by the contract? It seems like there should be a way to have truly occasional weekend babysitting exempted; we still meet the DC legal pay requirement in the sense that $20/hour is more than 1.5x minimum wage, so it seems like we should be able to agree to it in the abstract, no?
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[b]Doesn't work legally. :-( You and the nanny cannot legally agree to waive her overtime entitlement. If you are all agreed you might get away with it, but if the relationship goes downhill she can file a wage dispute for the unpaid overtime.[/b]
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This. I'm in the same boat. We hire the nanny if we need something difficult, like getting all four kids to bed, but otherwise use cheaper sitters. Same issue: $30 while the kids are sleeping doubles our cost for no good reason besides making the nanny happy. Luckily, she has plenty of other families to sit for, and honestly, it's probably better that she get a break from us even if she's still working.[/quote]

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