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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thank you. We have always paid her when she traveled, but it also never happened when we needed her. We don’t take months off from work. DH has 4 weeks total and I work from home. In the summer I take the kids to my home country (not same as nanny) and between my parents and summer camps I am able to work from there. That is why we don’t need the nanny for 2.5 months in the summer. We are not super wealthy either and have been thinking about reducing the hours we pay our nanny, but haven’t done so for fear she would leave us for FT employment.

I understand that there are cultural differences at play here; I would never ask 1 month off to bury my parents.

She has not asked for paid leave, but I think she assumes we will pay her since we have always done that when she (and we) traveled even for extended time.

I think I will tell her we can’t afford to pay for a replacement on top of her salary and she can take 1 week off paid and the rest without pay.

She has already taken more than 10 days off since the year started.[/quote]

I doubt she expects paid leave under the circumstances. That would be insane.

How old are your kids? Is there a reason you're not either using a child care center or before/after care? Unless they've got special needs, it seems like an option an obvious solution to these kinds if problems while also being cheaper. And kids that stick with nannies very long past about 2 or 3 often end up... weird. [/quote]

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