Care of older children while parent(s) is in the hospital:

• the agency booking charge is $50.00 per day – your sitter’s wages are separate
• sitter is on paid on-call status during the hours that you wish to reserve their availability – example: your neighbor who can help if you go into labor at night or on the weekend and you want a sitter available weekdays between 9am to 3pm – you pay an on-call rate for the sitter to be available during that 6-hour window​
• on-call is paid at 75% of the standardized hourly rate for declining other work to remain available
• on-call bookings follow our overnight cancellation policy: 
  • if canceling with more than 10 days notice, 25% of the booking’s value is due to the sitter
  • if cancelling with 3 to 10 days notice: 50% of the booking’s value is due to the sitter
  • if canceling with less than 72 hours notice, 100% of the booking’s value is due to the sitter
  • 3 hour minimum for all cancellation payments

Overnight stays may be subject to federal and state overtime law if your provider is your nanny, rather than your occasional babysitter.

With very few exceptions, domestic workers, including babysitters and nannies, are classified as “non-exempt” (protected) workers. There may be exceptions for casual babysitters, meaning “employment which is irregular or intermittent, and which is performed by an individual whose primary vocation is not babysitting.” Read the Federal Code of Regulation § 552.5 here. The agency typically categorizes occasional overnight bookings as casual babysitting if the provider is not your nanny. However, we cannot professionally advise you regarding this. We recommend that you consult with your own legal counsel or tax service for wage and overtime questions. If you pay an overnight babysitter as a non-exempt (protected worker), then:

• Non-exempt workers are entitled to pay for every hour worked at a rate that may not be less than the federal, state and, if applicable, local minimum wage rate.
• Overtime (time-and-a-half) is paid for each hour over 40 in a 7-day workweek. Under Colorado state wage law, non-exempt domestic workers must be paid overtime (time-and-a-half) for hours worked in excess of 12 hours in one workday, or 12 consecutive hours regardless of the day.per federal law, sitters and nannies are classified as domestic workers, must be paid hourly for all hours/minutes worked, and cannot be paid salary, a flat rate or a lump sum
• per federal law, any time worked > 40 hours in a 7 day week must be paid a rate of 1.5x the standard hourly rate
• per Colorado law, time worked > 12 in a single day, or worked consecutively regardless of day, must be paid a rate of 1.5x the standard hourly rate.

Babysitters carefully arrange their schedule for your family’s overnight booking. Once your booking is confirmed:

• if canceling with more than 10 days notice, 25% of the booking’s value is due to the sitter
• if cancelling with 3 to 10 days notice: 50% of the booking’s value is due to the sitter
• if canceling with less than 72 hours notice, 100% of the booking’s value is due to the sitter
• 3 hour minimum for all cancellation payments