advice please, should nanny (part-time) be paid while child at nursery schhol?

[janett]

hi all, wondered if any of you mums or nannies can help me. I have part-time nanny job, now child has started nursery school and i am nott needed till lunch time to pick up. Mum drops of before work. Should my pay stay the same or be reduced as my hours with child are less?

This would surely be a demotion and therefore you would have to agree on it unless it was a disciplinary matter. Since it is not then I would imagine you have a right to demand your exiating salary for the same hours but rearranged by mutual agreement or on the reduced hourage.

Not an expert though.

if your family want to stop paying you for these hours then they are renegotiating your contract - which they are fully entitled to do. and you are fully entitled to accept or reject any new terms. when my dds went f-t school I renegotiated my nanny's hours and completely re-did her contract. it coincided with her being due a pay-rise which meant we didn;t actually cut her total pay - her hours went down but her hourly rate went up and she kept the same salary. I was very conscious that if we did cut her salary we would loose her and really didn;t want that.

Under the new contract some days we pay her during the day and she does other jobs for us and some days we don't pay her and, infact, she usually does a few hours' work for someone else. we are incredibly lucky that she is willing to do different term time and holiday hours - all detailed in our now rather complex contract. on the days we pay her then yes, if the kids were ill she would not do the other jobs she does for us, and have the kids. If the kids were ill on one of the days we don;t pay her then no, we would not expect her to jump into the frame - we might ask her and she might say yes, in which case it would be over-time, but there's no expectation that she be available.

I used to nanny for a family where the children were all at school/pre-school in the mornings, so I got a couple of hours off as it were. I was still paid - as I was on-call should a child be taken ill, there were household duties that needed doing, plus full-time care was required during school holidays. Not the same situation as yours Janett, as you don't mention doing before nursery care, but none the less it is similar.

If the mum wants to change your contract, then with your agreement she can do so. However, she runs the risk that you won't want to agree the new contract, that you will go off and get another job with a family who want you full-time. Many parents don't want to keep changing childcare arrangements in my experience, so will usually agree to keeping things the same, perhaps meaning that those hours where the children are not in your direct care are used for more household type tasks, such as getting children's washing done, pre-preparing lunch/tea etc.

If I didn't show up at work until lunh time, I would npot expect to be paid for the morning. However, as others have said, you job description (including the hours you work) should be reflected in your contract.

Perhaps you could pick up a nanny share or do some no childcare shores if you want your pay to remain the same?

What will happen if the child is ill, or during breaks???