Nanny services: duties, sample contract

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

In the age of business people, it is difficult to do without such a necessary position as a nanny. Often, neither mom nor dad, even with the advent of a baby in the family, cannot leave a business or a career. Then the parents turn to the services of nannies. But we must also take into account the fact that the oral contractual basis is not enough to regulate the activities of the worker. Moreover, many nannies today are individual entrepreneurs. Why the regulator of business relations between them and their parents should be a labor, civil law contract. What duties, rights of a nanny, customers it includes, we will discuss in the article.

Document header

A contract for babysitting services, like any other official paper, begins with a standard heading:

1. City of making an agreement.
2. Date of agreement.
3. Personal data of the customer and contractor. For example: "Citizen Ivan Ivanov Ivanovich and citizen Petrova Marya Petrovna have concluded an agreement on the following…"

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The second section of the contract specifies its subject:

1. "Citizen Petrova Marya Petrovna undertakes to perform babysitting services for the child (or several children) of the customer - Ivanov Sergey Ivanovich, born in 2016".
2. "Provision of services will take place at…"

Term of agreement

Here indicates the duration of this contract for babysitting services:

1. Date from which the performer (nanny) must begin to perform his duties.
2. The term for which the employment agreement is concluded.

Payment for the work of the artist

It is important to prescribe all the subtleties of monetary remuneration for work:

1. The basic rate of payment by the customer for the work of the contractor. Separately, the remuneration for babysitting services per hour is prescribed, the average monthly rate, which is formed on the basis of the hourly rate.
2. Frequency of wages (for example, weekly, monthly). It is important to write down the day when the calculation will take place.
3. How are wages paid (cash, bank transfer)?
4. Tariff for overtime, work on holidays and weekends.
5. Conditions in case of temporary disability of the contractor - sick leave period, its payment (without maintenance, a certain percentage of the base rate).
6. Payment for days on which, at the initiative of the customer, babysitting services are not provided for the child (departure from the city, to visit relatives, family events andetc.)

Working hours

What should be entered here:

1. How many days a week does the nanny work, which days are days off for her.
2. Schedule every day.
3. Lunch time span.
4. Vacation: after how many months it is due, for how long, how it is paid (a certain% of the base rate).

Responsibility and general duties of a nanny

Important things to mention in this section of the babysitting contract:

1. What is the performer responsible for? For the he alth and life of the ward, the safety of property during their working hours, timely and high-quality performance of duties.
2. "The contractor must arrive at the workplace … minutes before the start of work."
3. Notification of impossibility to start services: in what way (call, message), for what time.
4. How are cases of illness or illness of the nanny discussed with the customer?

The main duties of the performer

Work, babysitting services include the following duties:

1. Work with your child only in clean, tidy clothes.
2. Give the customer your medical book. Regularly (at least once a year) undergo medical examinations.
3. Observe appropriate hygiene regulations: wash hands regularly, wear short nails, avoid strong-smelling perfumes.
4. Satisfaction of own needs (in particular,food) is not forbidden only without prejudice to the attention of the child. You can negotiate the possibility of food at the expense of the customer.
5. Limit the communication of the child on walks with children with symptoms of colds or other diseases, lack of proper demeanor.
6. To mark in the diary provided by the customer the time of feeding, medication, sleep of the ward.
7. Completely study family traditions, everyday habits of the customer's family and follow them when communicating with the child.
8. A contract for the services of a babysitter at home implies the immediate notification of the parents of the ward about all emergencies that have occurred with the child. The contractor is obliged to provide the victim with first aid (in addition, it is worth registering the phone numbers of the parents, the clinic, the children's "ambulance", the ambulance numbers for mobiles).
9. How to communicate with a child? The manifestation of certain qualities (patience, confidence in communication, firmness in character, etc.). How to behave in case of whims of the ward? What words to exclude from your vocabulary (obscene speech, "lisping")? How to call him and his parents? How to introduce yourself to a child ("nanny", by name-fatherland)?
10. Item regarding the use of money for children's expenses, the use of equipment, things of the customer, cleaning rules.

Specific responsibilities for the ward

What is important to write in this section of the contract for babysitting services:

1. Care for the child, ensuring his safety.
2. Compliance with the children's daily routine (negotiated with the customer).
3. Time, routes, places to walk with a child.
4. Escort to educational institutions, sections, studios, circles, etc.
5. Developing activities with a child, taking into account his individual characteristics - outdoor games, speech development, reading, dancing, singing, drawing, etc.
6. Cooking, warming up, ordering food for a child. Feeding according to the schedule approved by the customer. Washing children's dishes.
7. Development of self-service skills in the ward. Hygienic education of the child.
8. Exercise with a ward, exercises, gymnastics.
9. Keeping children's room, toys, baby's things in order.
10. Washing, ironing, change of clothes for the ward.
11. Provision of first aid, treatment discussed with the customer.
12. Other items at the request of the parent.

What is prohibited for the performer

The contract for the provision of babysitting services must also contain a number of prohibitions - the customer prescribes what the contractor should in no case do in relation to the child. For example:

1. Somehow punish the ward, raise his voice at him, scold him.
2. Leaving a child alone, unsupervised.
3. Shift your responsibilities to third parties.
4. Come to work feeling unwell, showing signs of a cold or other infection that could be passed on to the baby.
5. Treat a child with food, drinks, give him medicines without the approval of the customer.
6. Combine a walk with doing your own business: personalmeetings, shopping trips, etc.
7. Disseminate information about the customer's family, his financial condition, apartment furnishings to third parties.
8. Let your friends into the customer's house, open the door to strangers.
9. Introduce your friends, relatives, acquaintances to your child. Invite other children to play with him in the customer's house (without the consent of the latter).
10. Read adult literature to a child, turn on the TV with him, watching programs that are interesting to the performer.
11. Communicate in social networks, instant messengers to the detriment of the time spent with the child. Playing, watching cartoons, programs with him on your phone or tablet.

Performer Rights

An employment contract for the provision of nanny-housekeeper services must also contain a special section on the rights of the performer. Here's what's standard here. Nanny eligible:

1. Provide your services based on the terms of this agreement.
2. To receive monetary remuneration for work in full and within the agreed period.
3. Refuse from employment under this agreement by notifying the customer of his decision two weeks before the scheduled date of termination of the agreement.
4. Protect your interests, rights and freedoms in accordance with the current Russian legislation.

Customer Responsibilities

A sample contract with a nanny for the provision of services also provides for a number of responsibilities of the customer-parent:

1. Timely paymentcash remuneration for work in full (according to the contract).
2. Providing the performer with everything necessary for the performance of nanny duties.
3. Tactful, business relationship with the performer. Prevention of discrediting the nanny in the eyes of her ward.
4. Ensuring the safety of the artist's personal data.
5. Compliance with such a regime of work and rest for a nanny that would not run counter to the current regulations of Russian legislation.
6. If the contractor's working day is delayed until 22:00 local time, the customer is obliged at his own expense to call a taxi from the nanny's place of work to her place of residence.
7. Pre-warning the contractor about changing requirements, pay, work schedule, as well as the decision to refuse his services.
8. If the employment of a nanny with a child is more than five hours a day, then the ordering parents are obliged to provide the employee with the necessary food. Or provide food that she can use to prepare meals for her lunch.

Customer Rights

When concluding a contract for babysitting services without intermediaries, the customer, as well as the performer, is endowed with a certain set of rights. It includes the following:

1. The requirement that the performer perform all the duties of a nanny, prescribed in this contract.
2. Requirement to take care of your property - both in the nursery and throughout the house.
3. Ask the performer to provide a report on their work.
4. In the order that providescurrent Russian legislation, recover from the nanny the material damage caused to him (the customer).
5. Defend all the rights of the customer, provided for by the current legislative acts of the Russian Federation.
6. At any time, refuse the services of the performer. But only by warning the latter in advance.

Dispute resolution

Like any other employment agreement, this one should provide for the procedure for resolving disputes that have arisen. In this section, lawyers advise not to prescribe something of their own, but to use a common template for documents:

1. All disputes and disagreements that may arise between the two parties under this agreement or in any connection with it are resolved in two ways: in the process of negotiations or within the framework of the current legislation of the Russian Federation.
2. The document is made in two copies, which have the same legal force. Additions, changes to this agreement are valid under two conditions: made in writing, visaned (signed, approved) by both the customer and the contractor.

Information about the parties, conclusion

The contract with the nanny ends as standard - indicating the personal data of both parties. This is the following information:

• F. I. O.
• Passport details.
• Address of residence, registration.
• Contact number.

Then each of the parties under the column with their data signs. After the signature in brackets indicates its transcript.

Appendices to the contract

According to the customer's requestit is not forbidden to supplement the contract with an annex (s) with instructions for the future activities of the nanny:

• Rise time.
• Hygiene procedures, their regularity.
• Time for a child to eat - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, etc.
• Wishlist and Wishlist.
• List of necessary games, developing and sports activities with the ward.
• Prohibition on certain games, activities of the child.
• Daytime nap - duration, preparation for it.
• Walks - duration, locations.
• Recommendations for baby's outdoor, indoor, nightwear.
• Rules for cleaning, keeping the nursery and home in order.

Thus, the contract for the provision of babysitting services is a full-fledged labor agreement. In many ways, it is similar to the official one. However, the customer is allowed to make some additions according to the specifics of the activity, attach attachments to the document.