How much vacation/sick time do you give your nanny?

[Anonymous]

10 vacation days
5 sick days
3 personal days
all federal holidays

Plus guaranteed hours so she's off with pay when we don't need her.

[Anonymous]

My nanny was with us for nearly 9 years so towards the end she really just took however much time she needed, as she was and continues to be family. In the beginning, it was all federal holidays, 2 weeks vacation, sick days whenever she needed, and paid time off whenever we were on vacation. I have always WFH so if there was a day that she couldn't come in it wasn't a big deal. Maybe I'd have been more rigid if I had an office job

[Anonymous]

2 weeks - one overlapping with ours (we nanny shared so the overlap week was coordinated by all).
3 sick days but we were kind of flexible on these
Federal holidays
Any other days both families were both gone/off

[Anonymous]

Nannies need a union!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nannies need a union!

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YES!! It’s a shame in today’s time that Nannies are being cut on PTO and sick days.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been getting 4 weeks of PTO(15 days on my own and Christmas week off) all holidays paid, unlimited sick days, healthcare premium.
40 hours weekly guaranteed—wouldn’t work for anything less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15 days PTO earned throughout pay periods. Meaning, you do not start the year with 15 days.

We ask for a month's notice for vacation days and that one five-day block line up with one of our five-day blocks of vacation. We ask for as much notice as possible for sick days (like dr appts) but understand that isn't always possible.

Do you have to take your vacation days lined up when your boss takes their vacation? Your nanny earns these days and should be able to take them when she chooses.

+1000x

Absolutely this!
I find it unfair if a Nanny does not get two weeks of HER choosing, she shouldn’t have to have only one week per year of her boss’s choosing!

Most jobs that offer paid vacations leave the dates up to their employees.

It is not really a benefit if someone has to use a vacation week when their employer dictates…..

[Anonymous]

We offer unlimited sick days, and she’s paid when we’re out of town (6 weeks a year / 30 days). We give her notice of at least 4 weeks of our vacation time 3-6 months ahead of time. She’s also asked for days off here and there for things like weddings as well, and we have never docked her pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15 days PTO earned throughout pay periods. Meaning, you do not start the year with 15 days.

We ask for a month's notice for vacation days and that one five-day block line up with one of our five-day blocks of vacation. We ask for as much notice as possible for sick days (like dr appts) but understand that isn't always possible.

Do you have to take your vacation days lined up when your boss takes their vacation? Your nanny earns these days and should be able to take them when she chooses.

+1000x

Absolutely this!
I find it unfair if a Nanny does not get two weeks of HER choosing, she shouldn’t have to have only one week per year of her boss’s choosing!

Most jobs that offer paid vacations leave the dates up to their employees.

It is not really a benefit if someone has to use a vacation week when their employer dictates…..

And again - virtually all jobs that offer paid vacation have dynamics where most of the work continues by others while someone is out OR the work is simply paused and nothing moves while the worker is out. A nanny is a different job because a replacement must be paid or the family must use up their limited vacation days to cover the work. Beyond that most hourly jobs do not have paid PTO. Nannies do due to the high demand for them but a common structure if their paid PTO - due to the highly disruptive nature of them being out - is to overlap a week of the VAC time.