Term time only Nanny contract, holiday query...

[llamallama]

Hello

Has anyone got a term time only Nanny who can offer me some advice?

I am starting to draft our contract/job description. We need a Nanny for school time only so 39 weeks a year, the Nanny will have all school holidays off. I am assuming that I don't need to offer any additional holidays on top of this. They would also get bank holidays off. Is that right?

We would like to pro-rata pay so that the Nanny's wages are spilt equally throughout the year.

Can anyone help me with wording of the contract or point me to a sample one online perhaps?

Thank you

I have just done this! You do have to give them holiday as you still accrue some statutory holiday if you work 39 weeks a year. You work out how much holiday pro rata. you can put in the contract that the holiday is to be taken in the holidays (so in other words it becomes part of the 13 weeks she has off anyway). In effect, you will be paying her for 43 or 44 weeks (approx) to include the holiday entitlement. Our nanny is working term time only and getting 12 weeks off and her holiday entitlement worked out at 4.8 weeks.

ok thank you. I think I understand.

Do you have a contract with your nanny? would you be willing to post the paragraph that deals with the holidays?

No worries if not.

39 / (52/5.6-1) = 39 / 9.2857 -1 = 4.71 Thanks to MrAnchovy for that calculation

or another way. Lets assume 40 hours a week.

Multiply weekly contracted hours by the number of weeks worked:

40 hours x 39 weeks = 1,560 working hours year

Calculate the average hours worked each week. Divide by (52weeks -5.6 weeks) so divide by 46.4 This is needed as you don't get holiday whilst on holiday.

1,560 hours divided by 46.4 weeks = 33.62 average hours a week

Multiply by the holiday allowance:

33.62 hours x 5.6 weeks = 188.27working hours' holiday

Convert to weeks

188.27 / 40 hours = 4.71

You can give MORE holiday than this but not LESS.

An easier way to do that calculation is to multiply by 1/(52/5.6-1) which is approximately 12.07%, a figure you may recognise in this context!

So 39 x 0.1207 = 4.7073, round up to 4.71