Sick Pay for Part-Time Nanny

You should establish pay rules as soon as possible. I do not pay for any time off until someone has worked for me at least one year. Most part time jobs (less than 30 hours a week) do not provide any kind of sick pay, but all is negotiable up front. I often give my nannies a chance to make up their time so that they can pay their bills, and that's a nice option. But then I can use all the help I can get at just about any time, and you may not have need for a nanny other than your normal schedule. I think that since you have never discussed it, you can assume that your understanding was an hourly pay for actual work. If she asks for sick pay, then you and she will need to renegotiate her hourly pay, because you set that pay assuming it would only be for work hours. You really do not want to have to frequently renegotiate pay; that will set you up for trouble. A written contract is a good idea.

I think if you cancelled on her, then you should pay, but I don't think that she is entitled to sick pay as a part-time.

Some nannies ARE given a sick pay, it's usually in their contract (do you get a certain amount of sick days at work?)

If she is really great, you could give her the sick pay, but then suggest you guys work out a contract for future questions (such as holiday pay and all that).

http://thedaycarelady.com/form1.htm

Scroll down to the "c" part and print out a contract, then you guys can go over it and discuss what terms you can agree too. It's better to discuss them now, then when a situation arises.

I would only pay her when she came into work esp. in a parttime situation. What did you decide before hiring her? Did you work out a sick leave policy with a cap of some sort? If not, you should have a max number of sick days should you decide to pay her for sicktime. If she is out for surgery or something, you would not pay her for all that time off.

Usually, it is fulltime nannies that may have a time off (some number of days for vacation and sick combined) with pay.

I am a part time nanny and I do NOT get paid for sick leave, nor do I expect to get paid for not being there. I get paid vacation days but not sick.

I have NEVER been paid for sick time as a nanny esp as a part time. It would be a nice gesture if she was full time and I think she would need to work x amt of hrs 1st.