Nanny and COVID quarantining

[Anonymous]

Between both of my kids, someone in our family has pretty much been quarantined for the past 4+ weeks, but thankfully none of the kids (or us) have tested positive despite the exposures. After getting notified tonight about yet another 10 day quarantine for my youngest due to someone testing positive in his class, we are scrambling once again over childcare. For the first few quarantines I told our nanny not to come to be safe, and of course we paid her in full. DH and I took turns staying home from work and just sucked it up. However, our jobs are starting to give us a hard time about all the extra work from home time over the last few weeks and they want us in, which isn’t possible when you have a kid at home who needs supervision.

Curious what people are doing about quarantines - are you letting your nanny stay home or is she willing to come? I truly wish we were not in this situation but my guess is that this will happen a couple more times until we are on the decline.

[Anonymous]

If she's vaccinated and its past the 5 day mark with a Covid negative for the kid(s) - why can't she come?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she's vaccinated and its past the 5 day mark with a Covid negative for the kid(s) - why can't she come?

She may be willing to come after the 5 day mark but tomorrow is day 1 since kid was exposed today… so that means she is off for the rest of the week.

[Anonymous]

Hi OP, I'm really sorry about your situation. I know it must be really difficult for parents. I'm a nanny and am fully compensated when my care family had to quarantine twice. Thankfully, so far I've only had to do it once, during the winter break, so it didn't disrupt my work schedule since I was off. Otherwise, I've told the family if I need to quarantine on my end because of being exposed outside of work, I wouldn't expect pay for the time but they disagreed. Still, I will probably insist on half the rate if the time comes (I hope it doesn't though of course.) If I had already had Covid within 90 days of care family being exposed and needing to quarantine, I would have no problem going into work though.

[Anonymous]

Ok, so this is (part of) why I'm living in. I'm working unless I'm too sick to work, and I'm very, very well compensated for the willingness to live with them and work during quarantines and illness.

[Anonymous]

Most nannies in my area are vaccinated and still working for exposure quarantines. I have seen nannies not want to work if there is a positive case in the home, which feels reasonable to me.

[Anonymous]

I'm a nanny fully vaccinated and boostered and I worked through one quarantine with my elementary school charge and would expect to do the same if need be again. Again I am well compensated and work with very caring employers and it would be poop show for them if I couldn't come in for a 5-10 days.

[Anonymous]

I would ask the nanny to still come, but offer to do a sort of “test to stay.” Have your child take a rapid test + temp check each morning. Assuming a negative test and no fever or other symptoms, nanny works. If kid starts to come down with something or tests positive, then you pay her for the time off.