Part-time nanny PTO/contract
We are 8 months in to having a nanny. This is our first time having a nanny. She’s experienced with more than 20 years doing this. She is fairoy and competitively compensated for watching our one baby who is now almost a year old. We are a very organized household who makes things easy and she has told us such, we are her easiest client by far. She does minimal housework and is not responsible for any transportation of my child (she is unwilling). She is not cpr certified.
We met her through her daughter, who was our babysitter for my older kids. Being naive we didn’t make a contract and only had a verbal agreement. 24 guaranteed hours per week (she has been working closer to 30 hrs/week the past 5 months), paid for sick and PTO, etc. She has now had 75 hrs of PTO in 8 months. She was unwilling to coordinate any of her time with us so we are unable to take a vacation this year. I know it’s not her problem, but as a contractor myself I do not get paid unless I work so it’s difficult to pay her PTO when I have to take off those days and be unpaid. Her daughter offered to help next week while her mom is on more PTO, but the only way I could afford that is if I took from the nanny’s PTO pay next week to pay her daughter. I mentioned that to the nanny and she said no that she needed to be paid. So, I am ready to mend my mistake and move forward with a contract.
My question is what is fair at this point for PTO in a contract? I have had a whole mix of opinions from people in my area from no PTO, to 1-3 weeks, to only guaranteeing 50 weeks pay so we can vacation, etc. I want to be fair to the nanny and my family and am looking for what’s best.