What is your sick leave policy for your nanny?

[Anonymous]

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

We just do APL - all purpose leave. We ask they give as much notice as possible. So sometimes we get a text saying they're booking vacation for February now, in October. Sometimes they text saying they've got a dr's appointment next Thursday and will be in by 10am. And occasionally they wake up sick and text that they are too sick to work that day. We put in our contract that we will not guarantee approving APL for vacation days submitted with less than two weeks notice.

We set things up so our nanny accrues a bit of APL with each pay period. THey're not handed a big clump of time off at the start of each year. That's a recipe for having your nanny use up all their vacation by February and then saying they'll take time off unpaid.

[Anonymous]

Nanny here. I have three weeks vacation of my choosing, with caveat that they can refuse to honor it if I don’t give at least a month notice. Then I have five days of sick leave which I can use with no notice whatsoever. my policy is that if I’m sick with something that’s not too severe and that logic indicates I probably got from the children (meaning I would not be contagious to them because they’re already sick with that thing or they just got over being sick with that thing), then I will usually just work through it. If I have a cold or a headache or I’m lethargic, then I go to work anyway and we order pizza for dinner and watch a lot of TV.

In practice, I always give as much notice as possible or planned vacation and they bend over backwards to make it work, even if I only have two weeks notice that I want to take a long weekend. Because I work a split schedule and can do doctors appointments while the kids are in school, I have an actually used a sick day since before Covid hit because I’m a pod with my nanny family and we are all very Covid cautious so none of us have had Covid or anything else too serious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here. I have three weeks vacation of my choosing, with caveat that they can refuse to honor it if I don’t give at least a month notice. Then I have five days of sick leave which I can use with no notice whatsoever. my policy is that if I’m sick with something that’s not too severe and that logic indicates I probably got from the children (meaning I would not be contagious to them because they’re already sick with that thing or they just got over being sick with that thing), then I will usually just work through it. If I have a cold or a headache or I’m lethargic, then I go to work anyway and we order pizza for dinner and watch a lot of TV.

In practice, I always give as much notice as possible or planned vacation and they bend over backwards to make it work, even if I only have two weeks notice that I want to take a long weekend. Because I work a split schedule and can do doctors appointments while the kids are in school, I have an actually used a sick day since before Covid hit because I’m a pod with my nanny family and we are all very Covid cautious so none of us have had Covid or anything else too serious.

We do sushi and audiobooks, but this. However, I also have unlimited sick leave that I only take if I can't work: diarrhea, fever, vomiting or heavy rx.

[Anonymous]

We did 3 weeks vacation and 5 days sick in contract. In practice i didnt really count her time off as the nanny didn't abuse it and was rarely sick and coordinated so her vacations were when ours were and we took 4 weeks of vacation last year. If she was sick and called me she couldn't come in, we worked it out. She tried had to have dr appts late in the afternoon so shed leave at 4 which is doable with our work schedules.

[Anonymous]

10 vacation days accrued bimonthly (max rollover 1 week to next year), 5 sick days awarded at beginning of each year (no rollover), 12 holidays.

[Anonymous]

12 days vacation time
5 days sick time
11 holidays
Guaranteed hours

[Anonymous]

Unlimited sick leave.

2 weeks vacation of her choosing + 1 week of my choosing (which I give several months notice of)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here. I have three weeks vacation of my choosing, with caveat that they can refuse to honor it if I don’t give at least a month notice. Then I have five days of sick leave which I can use with no notice whatsoever. my policy is that if I’m sick with something that’s not too severe and that logic indicates I probably got from the children (meaning I would not be contagious to them because they’re already sick with that thing or they just got over being sick with that thing), then I will usually just work through it. If I have a cold or a headache or I’m lethargic, then I go to work anyway and we order pizza for dinner and watch a lot of TV.

In practice, I always give as much notice as possible or planned vacation and they bend over backwards to make it work, even if I only have two weeks notice that I want to take a long weekend. Because I work a split schedule and can do doctors appointments while the kids are in school, I have an actually used a sick day since before Covid hit because I’m a pod with my nanny family and we are all very Covid cautious so none of us have had Covid or anything else too serious.

Out of curiosity — what happens if the family is sick and contagious contagious. Are you expected to come in and potentially get sick yourself? Do those resulting sick days count against your sick days?