Anonymous wrote:OP here. I did not intend to start an argument here. I understand people have differing views. We have decided to use a contract and I just wanted to learn which sources people found helpful. I am aware care.com's. Perhaps there are others that would be good to look at.

OP what is your email? I'm a nanny who now owns my own nanny agency and have a work agreement (I don't call it a contract) that I send to my families once they hire a nanny. I'll gladly forward it along to you.

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Anonymous wrote:You really shouldn't need a contract. The nanny-family relationship is built on trust and respect. If you don't have those two things it will never work out anyways, contract or not.

I agree this is terrible advice. Using a nanny contract made us both aware of job expectations as well as things I never would have thought of had they not been listed on the contract (like which federal holidays to cover). It also can outline responsibilities so there is no job creep or job slip.

And again it should be a relationship based on trust and respect. You are an at-will employee so you can quit whenever you want and MB can fire you whenever she wants. If you get to the point where she asks you to do something and you say "no my contract says I don't have to, sorry" you are probably about to be let go anyways or at least you will have an awkward relationship with MB. So like I said a contract doesn't do much for a nanny but make things weird.

Could disagree more. If I had had a contract I would have thought about federal holidays and be getting paid for tomorrow instead of trying to make ends meet without this ten hours of work I'm losing.

No more likely than not you would be out of a job as MB passed on you and your ridiculous demands to find a better nanny. If you want paid holidays and all these other benefits than you need to find a real job governed by laws that provide those perks. Just MHO

Troll alert much?

PP, many nannies have guaranteed hours, paid federal holidays, paid sick leave, paid vacation, and even healthcare contributions. I am one of them. My MB did not "pass on me and my ridiculous demands," she offered those benefits outright. Please don't be so nasty.

OP, Google is your best bet. My boss sent me a contract furnished to her by our agency and it was ridiculously incomplete so I provided her with my own (which was actually written by two former employers, both attorneys) that covered far more - household duties, childcare duties, benefits, reasons for dismissal, outline of the trial period, exposure to screen time, what food I would eat/bring, basically everything that has ever come up in a job before! There must be one similar floating around out there

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Anonymous wrote:You really shouldn't need a contract. The nanny-family relationship is built on trust and respect. If you don't have those two things it will never work out anyways, contract or not.

I agree this is terrible advice. Using a nanny contract made us both aware of job expectations as well as things I never would have thought of had they not been listed on the contract (like which federal holidays to cover). It also can outline responsibilities so there is no job creep or job slip.

And again it should be a relationship based on trust and respect. You are an at-will employee so you can quit whenever you want and MB can fire you whenever she wants. If you get to the point where she asks you to do something and you say "no my contract says I don't have to, sorry" you are probably about to be let go anyways or at least you will have an awkward relationship with MB. So like I said a contract doesn't do much for a nanny but make things weird.

Could disagree more. If I had had a contract I would have thought about federal holidays and be getting paid for tomorrow instead of trying to make ends meet without this ten hours of work I'm losing.

No more likely than not you would be out of a job as MB passed on you and your ridiculous demands to find a better nanny. If you want paid holidays and all these other benefits than you need to find a real job governed by laws that provide those perks. Just MHO

LOL Thanks for the giggle!!!

OP here. I did not intend to start an argument here. I understand people have differing views. We have decided to use a contract and I just wanted to learn which sources people found helpful. I am aware care.com's. Perhaps there are others that would be good to look at.

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Anonymous wrote:You really shouldn't need a contract. The nanny-family relationship is built on trust and respect. If you don't have those two things it will never work out anyways, contract or not.

I agree this is terrible advice. Using a nanny contract made us both aware of job expectations as well as things I never would have thought of had they not been listed on the contract (like which federal holidays to cover). It also can outline responsibilities so there is no job creep or job slip.

And again it should be a relationship based on trust and respect. You are an at-will employee so you can quit whenever you want and MB can fire you whenever she wants. If you get to the point where she asks you to do something and you say "no my contract says I don't have to, sorry" you are probably about to be let go anyways or at least you will have an awkward relationship with MB. So like I said a contract doesn't do much for a nanny but make things weird.

Could disagree more. If I had had a contract I would have thought about federal holidays and be getting paid for tomorrow instead of trying to make ends meet without this ten hours of work I'm losing.

No more likely than not you would be out of a job as MB passed on you and your ridiculous demands to find a better nanny. If you want paid holidays and all these other benefits than you need to find a real job governed by laws that provide those perks. Just MHO

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Anonymous wrote:You really shouldn't need a contract. The nanny-family relationship is built on trust and respect. If you don't have those two things it will never work out anyways, contract or not.

I agree this is terrible advice. Using a nanny contract made us both aware of job expectations as well as things I never would have thought of had they not been listed on the contract (like which federal holidays to cover). It also can outline responsibilities so there is no job creep or job slip.

And again it should be a relationship based on trust and respect. You are an at-will employee so you can quit whenever you want and MB can fire you whenever she wants. If you get to the point where she asks you to do something and you say "no my contract says I don't have to, sorry" you are probably about to be let go anyways or at least you will have an awkward relationship with MB. So like I said a contract doesn't do much for a nanny but make things weird.

Could disagree more. If I had had a contract I would have thought about federal holidays and be getting paid for tomorrow instead of trying to make ends meet without this ten hours of work I'm losing.

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Anonymous wrote:You really shouldn't need a contract. The nanny-family relationship is built on trust and respect. If you don't have those two things it will never work out anyways, contract or not.

I agree this is terrible advice. Using a nanny contract made us both aware of job expectations as well as things I never would have thought of had they not been listed on the contract (like which federal holidays to cover). It also can outline responsibilities so there is no job creep or job slip.

And again it should be a relationship based on trust and respect. You are an at-will employee so you can quit whenever you want and MB can fire you whenever she wants. If you get to the point where she asks you to do something and you say "no my contract says I don't have to, sorry" you are probably about to be let go anyways or at least you will have an awkward relationship with MB. So like I said a contract doesn't do much for a nanny but make things weird.

Anonymous wrote:You really shouldn't need a contract. The nanny-family relationship is built on trust and respect. If you don't have those two things it will never work out anyways, contract or not.

I agree this is terrible advice. Using a nanny contract made us both aware of job expectations as well as things I never would have thought of had they not been listed on the contract (like which federal holidays to cover). It also can outline responsibilities so there is no job creep or job slip.

Anonymous wrote:You really shouldn't need a contract. The nanny-family relationship is built on trust and respect. If you don't have those two things it will never work out anyways, contract or not.

Terrible advice. It's much better to think through all the possibilities ahead of time and get an agreement down on paper. Yes trust and respect are important, but it's much better if everyone is aware of the expectations ahead of time.

You really shouldn't need a contract. The nanny-family relationship is built on trust and respect. If you don't have those two things it will never work out anyways, contract or not.

Anonymous wrote:We are hiring for the first time. Any suggestions on where to find a sample nanny contract?

Google "nanny contract"

We used the one on the care.com website.

We are hiring for the first time. Any suggestions on where to find a sample nanny contract?