Ideas for contract negotiation by L

The Schedule-- broken down by each day List of Job responsibilities-- list each think I am to do. Name of children, DOB, allergies, Compensation and Benefits: --- pay rate per hour. Overtime rate, over 9H in one day, and over 45H in week.---Cancellations: Family has booked the nanny for the times specified above. The family shall pay the nanny a minimum of ___ hours per week. Each shift Nanny shows up for is to be paid at a minimum of ____ hours. --- [(I work part time so my weekly 16 hours with one family, this happens in 4 days; If I work more hours on 3 of those days and for the family to meet the 18 hour weekly minimum... not so fast because each day has a 4 hour minimum to show up)]--- Sick days--- Paid days off on the listed holidays-- if on my normal working day---If family has nanny work a longer day then scheduled, family needs to ask first. If Family is late without prior approval causing nanny to miss a: class, appointment, job, ect; family is responsible for paying the fee's associated with that. In the event the families lateness cause nanny to miss next job, family is to pay for that missed shift. If the next job fires the nanny over missing work, then NF is responsible for 1 month worth of that job's wage. Confidentiality-- Both myself and the family will not post each others images, sounds, video online to any source without written consent. Taxes-- family will pay the nanny with a W2 at the end of the year. Thought the year the family will withhold all employment taxes: FiCa, state income, federal income; the family will also show on a pay stub each of the deductions from gross to net pay. If family fails to withhold taxes from nannies pay checks family is responsible for paying the taxes. Payment-- pay period is from Saturday- Friday-- pay day is every other Friday-- If family is late at paying the nanny for any reason the family will pay a $_____ fee per day-- If families payment to the nanny bounces the family is responsible for an NSF fee of $____ and the late payment fee until the nanny gets a replacement check-- starting from the date the check was due. ---- Family is also responsible for any overdraft or NSF fee's the nanny encounters waiting for proper payment. That is how I do it. I have had a family go on vacation for 3 weeks, leaving me with no pay. I still had to care for the kids (I worked for DB, and the "MB" (not my employer) was divorced from DB). For 3 weeks I worked, with no money. At the end of the 3 weeks when I finally got a check I had to wait for it to clear. During this time I have about $300 in overdraft fee's. I owed my parents $200 for gas and food. My cell phone got shut off and DB was pissed he had no way to contact me-- the "MB" too. During that time I couldn't go out with my friends, I was also in school full time and had to skip lunch sometimes-- no money. I was young and dumb, I learned from that story. I wont let it happen again. Another story, my check bounced and the MB took 2 weeks to issue me a new one and didn't think any of my NSF or overdraft fee's were her fault. Those 2 stories got my payment clause to how it is. Another Story: family was late at reliving me. I missed an appointment had a no-show fee; they didn't think it was their responsibility to pay. This same family, was again so late that I missed my next job (that paid a higher wage); again they didn't want to pay the difference. Same family--I didn't learn yet-- made me miss my next job again and again, I was let go for excessive lateness/cancellations. Again this family felt no remorse. Another story, not in my contract, as I am still trying to figure how to word it.... Parking. I got a parking ticket on the street. It was the only spot to park for this NF, I let the MB know were I was parked and when i needed to move the car. MB said she would be home in time. I got a ticket, because MB was late very very late. MB told me I should park some place else-- there is no place else to park! My stories have cause me to become a hard @$$