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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wife and I have a nanny that we really like.  She's fantastic with the kids and we want to keep her.  We pay her $25/hr in the west suburbs of Chicago, 40 hours per week, plus 5 sick days and 10 paid vacation days.  We pay her above the table and everything works great.  [b]Before Christmas she asked us for a small advance to help cover the holidays, which she's since paid back (through working) and things have gone without a hitch. [/b] We do not give her guaranteed hours (nothing in the contract states that we do) but we do state that her average work week will be 40 hours.

We're planning a week long vacation without the nanny.  We gave her 4 weeks of notice  I've assumed that she would either go unpaid or would use her accumulated vacation time for the time off, but should have been explicit.  My wife disagrees and thinks we should have her come to the house and do reorganization projects or house work.  The truth is that there's not enough housework to keep her busy for a full week.  She has enough accumulated vacation time to cover the time we're gone, but I'm wondering if it's reasonable to ask her to use that vacation time or not.

We absolutely want to keep her, so need to plan this conversation.  Based on context clues she has assumed that she will come in on the days we're gone to do projects here at our house, but we've never discussed it.  This is our first family vacation since the nanny started, so I think it will set a precident for future vacations.  At $25/hr that will add $200 to every day that we go on vacations in the future.

Thoughts?[/quote]

OP, do you not pay your nanny over the holidays?

Or did she need extra funds beyond what you pay her for holiday expenses?[/quote]

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