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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny here. I try to explain to families… if you hire me Monday- Friday, you’re paying me Monday- Friday. I’m not going to be available for you Monday- Friday, but only get paid Tuesday and Thursday. Would you take a job like that? 
Imagine you work 160 hours/ month, your boss calls and says
Hey next month I only need you 135 hours, sorry. See ya later.
And it’s beyond our control that holidays fall on certain week days. Families need to understand, that we are exclusively available to you, so we would like to get paid for this availability. We can’t just call another family in the morning and ask if we can come work for them because our boss doesn’t need us. 
You can’t compare these nanny jobs to most other professions, because again, if the CEO of America bank goes on vacation, the bank remains open for their employees and customers, I don’t think he will close the bank because he’s going on vacation. It happens a lot with the nanny jobs, grandparents come over, parents get off of work early…

So I suggest strongly that you consider paying her for EVERYDAY and every hour that she is scheduled to work, no matter if it’s a holiday or grandparents come over or what. Any additional hours I would pay extra. That’s the only way to keep a nanny happy. And hostels, I’ve been a nanny for almost 20 years. What I want? I want to get paid a living wage for me being exclusively available for you so you can have a CAREER and live a life style I might never have… think about it [/quote]

Thanks , Nanny, but that isn’t the question. I’m not talking about paying less. I’m wondering about using unused hours at other times, on rare occasions. Or is it better to have Nannies work on all “holidays”? (Obviously I’m talking about mlk day and Veterans Day, not thanksgiving.)[/quote]

Holidays are not unused hours.[/quote]

+1.[/quote]

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