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[quote=Anonymous]"LOL - so working for the "government" and your one job as a sales clerk is "the way of the world"!!! Please - you were given a schedule when you worked for the government which included an on-call schedule. Go peddle your nonsense to someone else. I've worked in various industries all in corporate America and NONE call you and tell you you don't need to come into work from your scheduled shift/hours AND you won't get paid for it."

Hunh? This is the standard practice for hourly workers. I worked in restaurants as a hostess and waitress and agree that they would start cutting people loose if it was slow. And I only was paid for hours worked. Some weeks I was scheduled lots and others less. The problem is that many MBs did do hourly work when young and so are aware of the fact that that most hourly jobs pay you for when you work. So it is not at all "common sense" that you would need to pay your hourly worker nanny for hours not worked.

That said I do guarantee hours in the normal sense of that because once I learned about it it made sense to me to offer this as a benefit to help retain a long term nanny. It is the smart this to do. But that does NOT mean that MBs that pay an hourly worker for the hours worked are evil - more likely they are not aware of the industry standard.

Or for a very PT nanny it could be that they would be ok with having to replace her. I do not guarantee my house cleaner hours since I pay her for coming to clean. If I am away her normal day I try to "shift those hours" but if I cannot then I do not pay her. If she does not like this though I would not be heart broken to have to replace her. My nanny is a different story so for her she gets guaranteed hours, PTO, sick, holidays. 
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