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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our wonderful nanny, who has never once called in sick in three years, was out for two days after her 2nd covid vaccine.  DH and I are both scheduled to get our first and 2nd doses on Fridays and are worried we might have similar side-effects.

Would it be unfair to ask nanny to be on standby for those weekends, especially the 2nd shot weekend in case we need her?  We’d pay time and a half if we do need her but what should we pay for stand-by?

I know our nanny and she will say “nothing” if we ask her.  [/quote]

Having to get up and travel to take care of children in someone else’s home where you feel compelled to be “on” for a job is completely different than being able to lay around in sweat pants and let your kids watch cartoons and order pizza if you do end up both feeling under the weather....especially since there are two of you and the chances of both of you being totally incapacitated by the vaccine are tiny!

Asking your nanny to be on call for this situation is completely different than her (reasonably) requesting to use her earned leave anticipating that she may be feeling rundown. I’m an essential worker whose whole office was vaccinated around the same time and about 50% took some paid leave following the vaccine. I don’t know if a single person who called in reinforcements to help parent their children.[/quote]

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