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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clarifying the difference between average rates and base/OT rates for the OP has nothing to do with being cheap unless the nanny posters are trying to manipulate her into thinking the positions warrant a higher overall gross when she establishes her base budget. (This probably is what is going on with them. Ugh.)

I wish I had known about the average rate thing when we were interviewing. I was quoting base rates and one candidate said that was a little too low for her. I thanked her politely and replied that sorry, we were not planning on going higher than X per week for X hours. She quickly responded in surprise that the gross rate I just quoted was great and she thought that I meant an amount that used the average rate. For all future candidates, I asked them to clarify whether they were talking about their average or base rate and all said average.

I have seen nannies on this board post many times how a job that offers fewer hours should and does pay more per hour. You can't have it both ways. If a job with fewer hours pays more then by definition a job with more hours pays less. [/quote]

Part time jobs payoff per hour because you work significantly less hours and are expected to make a commitment which means there needs to be some compensation so you are still able to make love able wages, especially if the hours requested are at odds with supplementing another part time job. Overtime however is not the same, it is hours outside the realm of the normal work week and is in place to discourage employees being overworked, and there is a reason it is a law.

Employment is meant to be mutually beneficial. Overworking and underpaying is not a mutually beneficial arrangement. Like the PP poster noted, would you re evaluate an decrease an employees pay rate who is ready employed by you at a specific rate? No you probably would not. What you are suggesting is only beneficial to the famy, though some nannies will do this if they desperately need the mp ey, or if they simply do not understand the law. That does not make it right, it just makes you fortunate. That same nanny can offer her services elsewhere and get her same rate accepted.

At the end of the day negotiating is up to the nanny and the family, some will accept this, my guess is most would not. And they would be well within their rights not to.[/quote]

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