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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are laws that answer this question for you. A nanny is a non-exempt employee. Ask your lawyer how you are supposed to pay for this trip under the relevant federal and state wage and hour laws.[/quote]

OP here--thanks, I'm not a lawyer, but I did look up regulations around compensating overnight travel. By law we have to pay her for any time worked, and "worked" includes travel to the job (like her flights) if they're during work hours. Which of course we'd do anyway. We don't have to pay her for hours she's off duty, like weekends, or between the hours of 5pm and 9am. cf 29 C.F.R. § 785.16 (“Periods during which an employee is completely relieved from duty and which are long enough to enable him to use the time effectively for his own purposes are not hours worked.”).

So...legally speaking we will be paying more than required, since she'll have additional PTO. This isn't really a question about the law, which we're of course following; this is a question about convention and etiquette around whether paying nannies a bonus for travel is standard, unlike for other employees in other kinds of business trips.[/quote]

Your company probably has to get the requisite visa for you to work locally for a month in a foreign country, and local employment law may apply.

Same goes for your nanny.  What will she say when the border & customs officer asks her what the purpose of her travel is?[/quote]

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