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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny and fellow Milspouse here. I have worked for three different families where both parents were physicians. Only one required major holidays and I was told up front that the position would require alternating Christmas and Thanksgiving. We agreed that I would get double time and the parents would bring the kids to me on that day and I would celebrate as usual with family or friends.

Because it was not agreed upon at hire and because it is so close to the holiday I would definitely give her the option to make some extra money or have the day off. I think it would be pretty low to tell her she HAS to work it. You definitely still have time to find some backup care if she says no. With your DH just gone you really don’t want to do something to sour your relationship with your nanny![/quote]

So i think everyone is mistaken of course she knew upfront just like we talked about the possibility of my husband being deployed . I wpuld never take advantage of her and she has the option to say not but she is also allowed to drive the girls around so she can be with her family if she wants[/quote]

Then why the question? It was a condition of the job on hiring. Are you just asking what you should pay her? You still should have told her you would be on call for either TG or Xmas explicitly if you did not. If you did tell her that, then she probably knows. If you didn't say in your contract what her on-call pay would be, decide and address it now since this is likely to not be the only on-call day in the next two years. Then, if you want to be generous, add a bonus for working Christmas.

Lots of jobs require working the holidays for no extra pay; that's just part of the job. People usually don't take those jobs if they don't like that part, or leave them if their circumstances change. I'm assuming[b] the nursing staff at the hospital just gets regular old pay, as do the kids working the local movie theater[/b]...[/quote]

You're mistaken. Many jobs pay holiday pay. My cousin gets 3.5x his hourly rate when he works as a firefighter on holidays. 
Also, if you read the initial post, OP was asking how much to pay her. IMO, double is fine. [/quote]

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