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Anonymous wrote:They should not pay you for the doctor visits except if you make up the hours. They should pay you if they schedule you and don’t need you.

That’s insane! How can you not get compensated for going to a check-up?!! Employers do go to doctors appointments and dental and more and best believe their company pays them regardless. This is about your HEALTH. For an employer not to pay you those few hours is just so petty &cheap!!

If I am leaving my office during my scheduled hours I have to take PTO (yes, even though I'm salaries), my employers don't care if it's for my HEALTH.
Yet another classic DCUM nanny scenario where y'all just don't think you have to operate like 99% of the rest of the workforce.

“99% of the workforce” doesn’t have the draconian management you do.

Actually, yes, most do.

Most employers either have "comp" time (have to make up the hours missed for appointments OR have already made them up in advance) or health appointments are counted against sick time that has been accrued. Sorry, nannies, it is a bit entitled to expect to be granted unlimited time off for health appointments or illness. If you are not at work doing your job, your employers can't do theirs. If your former employers didn't account for this, they probably just didn't want to deal with the complication to that week's payroll.

The nanny is not asking for unlimited sick leave; just to be compensated for the hour or so that she needs to get health check. How’s that entitlement?!!!Shhe watches their kid and important to be healthy so she can perform accordingly.

She is compensated through her annual and sick leave/PTO. That's why she is given it. If she refuses to take it, that's on her.

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Anonymous wrote:They should not pay you for the doctor visits except if you make up the hours. They should pay you if they schedule you and don’t need you.

That’s insane! How can you not get compensated for going to a check-up?!! Employers do go to doctors appointments and dental and more and best believe their company pays them regardless. This is about your HEALTH. For an employer not to pay you those few hours is just so petty &cheap!!

If I am leaving my office during my scheduled hours I have to take PTO (yes, even though I'm salaries), my employers don't care if it's for my HEALTH.
Yet another classic DCUM nanny scenario where y'all just don't think you have to operate like 99% of the rest of the workforce.

“99% of the workforce” doesn’t have the draconian management you do.

Actually, yes, most do.

Most employers either have "comp" time (have to make up the hours missed for appointments OR have already made them up in advance) or health appointments are counted against sick time that has been accrued. Sorry, nannies, it is a bit entitled to expect to be granted unlimited time off for health appointments or illness. If you are not at work doing your job, your employers can't do theirs. If your former employers didn't account for this, they probably just didn't want to deal with the complication to that week's payroll.

The nanny is not asking for unlimited sick leave; just to be compensated for the hour or so that she needs to get health check. How’s that entitlement?!!!Shhe watches their kid and important to be healthy so she can perform accordingly.

NP. It’s obviously important that any worker be healthy, no? Like obviously I want my doctor, electrician, landscaper, etc to be healthy. But I don’t comp them for the hour of work they miss getting a check up.

If it’s just an hour here and there, the nanny employer can certainly eat it. But to say that maintaining the nanny’s health is somehow the employers obligation or “for the benefit of the employer” is just ridiculous. Nanny shouldn’t expect to be paid while she’s getting a dental cleaning, lol.

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Anonymous wrote:They should not pay you for the doctor visits except if you make up the hours. They should pay you if they schedule you and don’t need you.

That’s insane! How can you not get compensated for going to a check-up?!! Employers do go to doctors appointments and dental and more and best believe their company pays them regardless. This is about your HEALTH. For an employer not to pay you those few hours is just so petty &cheap!!

If I am leaving my office during my scheduled hours I have to take PTO (yes, even though I'm salaries), my employers don't care if it's for my HEALTH.
Yet another classic DCUM nanny scenario where y'all just don't think you have to operate like 99% of the rest of the workforce.

“99% of the workforce” doesn’t have the draconian management you do.

Actually, yes, most do.

Most employers either have "comp" time (have to make up the hours missed for appointments OR have already made them up in advance) or health appointments are counted against sick time that has been accrued. Sorry, nannies, it is a bit entitled to expect to be granted unlimited time off for health appointments or illness. If you are not at work doing your job, your employers can't do theirs. If your former employers didn't account for this, they probably just didn't want to deal with the complication to that week's payroll.

The nanny is not asking for unlimited sick leave; just to be compensated for the hour or so that she needs to get health check. How’s that entitlement?!!!Shhe watches their kid and important to be healthy so she can perform accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:Nannies have to make sure they get their hours guaranteed, sick leave in place(about 7 days), 10 days of PTO and their annual raise. You have to put up with employers and sick kids so employer have to treat their caregivers right.

OP does not want to use her leave for doctor's appointments which is 1/2 the problem.

Not 1/2 a problem when employer brings sickness and the employee blows all her 4/5 days of sickness and when she gets sick’s shes under unpaid sickness. What kind of employer does that? Not okay in any way.

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Anonymous wrote:They should not pay you for the doctor visits except if you make up the hours. They should pay you if they schedule you and don’t need you.

That’s insane! How can you not get compensated for going to a check-up?!! Employers do go to doctors appointments and dental and more and best believe their company pays them regardless. This is about your HEALTH. For an employer not to pay you those few hours is just so petty &cheap!!

If I am leaving my office during my scheduled hours I have to take PTO (yes, even though I'm salaries), my employers don't care if it's for my HEALTH.
Yet another classic DCUM nanny scenario where y'all just don't think you have to operate like 99% of the rest of the workforce.

“99% of the workforce” doesn’t have the draconian management you do.

Actually, yes, most do.

Most employers either have "comp" time (have to make up the hours missed for appointments OR have already made them up in advance) or health appointments are counted against sick time that has been accrued. Sorry, nannies, it is a bit entitled to expect to be granted unlimited time off for health appointments or illness. If you are not at work doing your job, your employers can't do theirs. If your former employers didn't account for this, they probably just didn't want to deal with the complication to that week's payroll.

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Anonymous wrote:They should not pay you for the doctor visits except if you make up the hours. They should pay you if they schedule you and don’t need you.

That’s insane! How can you not get compensated for going to a check-up?!! Employers do go to doctors appointments and dental and more and best believe their company pays them regardless. This is about your HEALTH. For an employer not to pay you those few hours is just so petty &cheap!!

If I am leaving my office during my scheduled hours I have to take PTO (yes, even though I'm salaries), my employers don't care if it's for my HEALTH.
Yet another classic DCUM nanny scenario where y'all just don't think you have to operate like 99% of the rest of the workforce.

“99% of the workforce” doesn’t have the draconian management you do.

Actually, yes, most do.

Anonymous wrote:I work Full-time for a family that has a 1 year old, started when DS was only 2 months. The two times i needed to go to doctor i took about 1-2 hours off and got back to work. The family deducted those hours from my paycheck. A few weeks ago, DM told me she had family in town and wont need me one day. I got those 8 hours deducted from my paycheck, also. In the 11 years working as a FT nanny none of my former employers never clipped me for medical nor days off given voluntarily by them. Have you dealt with this issue before? Would you email or speak directly to them that im not happy with that and want guaranteed hours. TIA for your advice!

This is not ok. We paid our part-time babysitter for days that we told them to take off. It's not your fault they told you to take off and then don't pay you for it. Find a new job and make sure you get a contract

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Anonymous wrote:They should not pay you for the doctor visits except if you make up the hours. They should pay you if they schedule you and don’t need you.

That’s insane! How can you not get compensated for going to a check-up?!! Employers do go to doctors appointments and dental and more and best believe their company pays them regardless. This is about your HEALTH. For an employer not to pay you those few hours is just so petty &cheap!!

If I am leaving my office during my scheduled hours I have to take PTO (yes, even though I'm salaries), my employers don't care if it's for my HEALTH.
Yet another classic DCUM nanny scenario where y'all just don't think you have to operate like 99% of the rest of the workforce.

“99% of the workforce” doesn’t have the draconian management you do.

Glad you got hours guaranteed and medical covered. I’d not work w/o any of those benefits, period. In addition, I’d be asking for Health insurance or at least stipend.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks a bunch for all the advices. So after talking to them my salary is now guaranteed (whether they need my services or not due to family in town or fam takes vacation)they made a change to our contract and would not be penalized for medical appointments as I mentioned that I’ve never ever got clipped for it. I have used the 4 sick days they gave me a year and added 2 more days since they came down with COVID last summer and I used all my sick days. PTO remains 10 days.

Im at peace now, thanks again!!

Wow, funny how you didn't mention you HAD sick leave and PTO and used it all. They were appropriate not to pay if you used your leave for the doctor's appointment.

Where did i say I use ALL my PTO(i use pto for VACATION)and why should i get penalized if they got covid in August and then flu last mont and I had to use my 4 days/32 hours sick leave b/c of their sickness? Not funny at all. Employers have UNLIMITED time off and UNLIMITED sick leave yet when they get sick they never tell me? You bet I’ll be taking sick leave anytime they get any contagious disease and that would not be deducted from my sick leave.

No one has unlimited leave and if they do they cannot take as much as they want. Sounds like you should get a more flexible job where you can do what you want, when you want and get paid what you want.. good luck with that.

Nanny here-the family I work for has paid me about 14 days of sickness and 23 days PTO this year(our contract reads 6 sick days and 10 days PTO). They never deducted a dollar from my paycheck. I’ve gone to the dentist at least 2x this year and 3x to PCP, they paid me regardless. For reference, one works for Big tech and gets unlimited time off, the other is civil rights attorney and works all the time but takes 3 weeks vacation in the summer.

Glad the nanny got things straight with employers.

Very few people get that much time off. My spouse works for big tech and they get a few weeks a year of PTO and no sick leave. They are on billable hours. You don't work, you don't get paid. Simple.

OP should take sick leave for medical appointments. What your employer gets has nothing to do with what you get.

Wrong! Depends of the company. My sister forks for big tech- G -& gets unlimited pto but is connected like 24/7. The two times she got covid she was out of commission for almost 11 days and of course big tech paid her; the nanny is asking to get paid for medical since they got her sick. She cares for the damn kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks a bunch for all the advices. So after talking to them my salary is now guaranteed (whether they need my services or not due to family in town or fam takes vacation)they made a change to our contract and would not be penalized for medical appointments as I mentioned that I’ve never ever got clipped for it. I have used the 4 sick days they gave me a year and added 2 more days since they came down with COVID last summer and I used all my sick days. PTO remains 10 days.

Im at peace now, thanks again!!

Wow, funny how you didn't mention you HAD sick leave and PTO and used it all. They were appropriate not to pay if you used your leave for the doctor's appointment.

Where did i say I use ALL my PTO(i use pto for VACATION)and why should i get penalized if they got covid in August and then flu last mont and I had to use my 4 days/32 hours sick leave b/c of their sickness? Not funny at all. Employers have UNLIMITED time off and UNLIMITED sick leave yet when they get sick they never tell me? You bet I’ll be taking sick leave anytime they get any contagious disease and that would not be deducted from my sick leave.

No one has unlimited leave and if they do they cannot take as much as they want. Sounds like you should get a more flexible job where you can do what you want, when you want and get paid what you want.. good luck with that.

Nanny here-the family I work for has paid me about 14 days of sickness and 23 days PTO this year(our contract reads 6 sick days and 10 days PTO). They never deducted a dollar from my paycheck. I’ve gone to the dentist at least 2x this year and 3x to PCP, they paid me regardless. For reference, one works for Big tech and gets unlimited time off, the other is civil rights attorney and works all the time but takes 3 weeks vacation in the summer.

Glad the nanny got things straight with employers.

Very few people get that much time off. My spouse works for big tech and they get a few weeks a year of PTO and no sick leave. They are on billable hours. You don't work, you don't get paid. Simple.

OP should take sick leave for medical appointments. What your employer gets has nothing to do with what you get.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks a bunch for all the advices. So after talking to them my salary is now guaranteed (whether they need my services or not due to family in town or fam takes vacation)they made a change to our contract and would not be penalized for medical appointments as I mentioned that I’ve never ever got clipped for it. I have used the 4 sick days they gave me a year and added 2 more days since they came down with COVID last summer and I used all my sick days. PTO remains 10 days.

Im at peace now, thanks again!!

Wow, funny how you didn't mention you HAD sick leave and PTO and used it all. They were appropriate not to pay if you used your leave for the doctor's appointment.

Where did i say I use ALL my PTO(i use pto for VACATION)and why should i get penalized if they got covid in August and then flu last mont and I had to use my 4 days/32 hours sick leave b/c of their sickness? Not funny at all. Employers have UNLIMITED time off and UNLIMITED sick leave yet when they get sick they never tell me? You bet I’ll be taking sick leave anytime they get any contagious disease and that would not be deducted from my sick leave.

No one has unlimited leave and if they do they cannot take as much as they want. Sounds like you should get a more flexible job where you can do what you want, when you want and get paid what you want.. good luck with that.

Nanny here-the family I work for has paid me about 14 days of sickness and 23 days PTO this year(our contract reads 6 sick days and 10 days PTO). They never deducted a dollar from my paycheck. I’ve gone to the dentist at least 2x this year and 3x to PCP, they paid me regardless. For reference, one works for Big tech and gets unlimited time off, the other is civil rights attorney and works all the time but takes 3 weeks vacation in the summer.

Glad the nanny got things straight with employers.

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Anonymous wrote:Nannies have to make sure they get their hours guaranteed, sick leave in place(about 7 days), 10 days of PTO and their annual raise. You have to put up with employers and sick kids so employer have to treat their caregivers right.

OP does not want to use her leave for doctor's appointments which is 1/2 the problem.

This should not be a problem if she gets sick leave when she’s indeed sick, but all she’s asking for is to get paid when she seeks medical which is about 2 hours. I’ve read the family got the nanny sick not once but twice AND she only gets about 32 hours of sick leave, I mean REALLY?! And why would the family make her work when they’re all sick and she gets penalized for going to the doctors? That’s unfair.

The moral of the story is that there some CHEAP employers that can spend about $200 weekly in lunches/dinners/take-outs but unwilling to pay their Nanny 2 hours for a medical need. The nanny watches and cares for their treasure child so they should really appreciate her time and make sure she’s well next time they get ‘sick’again. This is not about money, it’s the principle!!

Anonymous wrote:Nannies have to make sure they get their hours guaranteed, sick leave in place(about 7 days), 10 days of PTO and their annual raise. You have to put up with employers and sick kids so employer have to treat their caregivers right.

OP does not want to use her leave for doctor's appointments which is 1/2 the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks a bunch for all the advices. So after talking to them my salary is now guaranteed (whether they need my services or not due to family in town or fam takes vacation)they made a change to our contract and would not be penalized for medical appointments as I mentioned that I’ve never ever got clipped for it. I have used the 4 sick days they gave me a year and added 2 more days since they came down with COVID last summer and I used all my sick days. PTO remains 10 days.

Im at peace now, thanks again!!

Wow, funny how you didn't mention you HAD sick leave and PTO and used it all. They were appropriate not to pay if you used your leave for the doctor's appointment.

Where did i say I use ALL my PTO(i use pto for VACATION)and why should i get penalized if they got covid in August and then flu last mont and I had to use my 4 days/32 hours sick leave b/c of their sickness? Not funny at all. Employers have UNLIMITED time off and UNLIMITED sick leave yet when they get sick they never tell me? You bet I’ll be taking sick leave anytime they get any contagious disease and that would not be deducted from my sick leave.

No one has unlimited leave and if they do they cannot take as much as they want. Sounds like you should get a more flexible job where you can do what you want, when you want and get paid what you want.. good luck with that.