Originally Posted by nannyde:
Are you charging her for over ten hours?
Are you charging her ADDITIONAL fees for unscheduled over ten hours?
I would have a base rate for the ten hours plus
an hourly rate per kid for anything scheduled over ten hours
and then an additional rate for anything extra that is unscheduled.
Unscheduled would mean any extra time that wasn't agreed upon twenty four hours in advance.
If you are doing it for free she's just going to call you and say the words that she has to work late. She can have extra time in the evening for free with just a couple of words to you.
I have not charged her extra and I know that her job makes her stay late with little notice because my husband used to work there and it happened to him all the time. There is another DC in town that offered to keep her kids for an unlimited amount of hours for my same weekly price. So I know she will just terminate in the event I say anything to change our original agreement. I will probably have to just tough it out through summer for financial reasons and then when fall rolls and her oldest is in school full time follow through with some sort of change and see what happens.