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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm not really sure why all the nanny PPs are jumping all over you.  We have a long-term professional nanny whom we occasionally use for overnights and weekends.  She has asked to have her husband come hang out with her after our kids go to bed, and we refused.  Nothing personal- we have met him and like him- but I am paying my nanny to work, not to socialize.

Re: the overnight payment- when our nanny stays over, we lay her her full overtime rate until our kids go to bed, and then a flat overnight fee of $100.  I have never heard of a nanny getting their full overtime rate for each hour that she "works" overnight (while she is sleeping)- that would be quite odd, and for us, cost prohibitive.[/quote]

You are cheap.  federal law mandates that ALL domestic employees are paid OT after 40 hours.  Unless she 's, leave the house, get drunk or socialize, the, she should be paid OT.  Who gives a damn if it is cost prohibitive for you.  She was entitled to OT and she should have turned the gig down.[/quote]

actually, federal law allows you to have 8 unpaid hours out of a 24 hour shift if an employee has both the means and opportunity to get uninterrupted sleep. You may insist on full OT all night (good luck with that) but please know the laws before you start throwing around what you are"entitled" to.[/quote]

Federal law states that the first day of multiple 24 hour shifts may have the nanny's 8 hour sleep period unpaid only if she has 8 hours at least in which to sleep and she is able to sleep for at least 5 hours continuously.  If either condition is unmet, every hour must be paid.  And that provision only applies to the first night, which means that technically, nanny would be on OT for the next night, regardless of whether she woke during the night.  Finally, if this is the family's nanny and she's hitting 40 for the week prior to this weekend, every hour should be OT, not that the employer is doing it.[/quote]

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