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[quote=Anonymous]Yikes.

This reminds me of when I held a big event at a local business. We had a tight budget, so had negotiated a VERY small discount well ahead of time. When the final bill came, I noticed a clear accidental overcharge on their part. I wouldn't have even mentioned it (it was small, though notably larger than our discount!) except it was just such a clear, open-and-shut case of error on their part. I figured it would be quickly corrected, no harm, no foul.

They dug their heels in, admitting it was their error but saying, whatever, they had already given us a discount.

???

What did one have to do with the other?

When you schedule someone to work for a certain period and then cancel on them, you owe them the money, ethically, if not always legally. Because they could not schedule other work for that time. I ran into this as a contractor when I was younger. Everyone paid-- as they should, because it was often the case that I had turned down other work because they had scheduled my time first.

Obviously this nanny was a poor fit, and it wasn't working out. In fact, she arguably left you up a creek, and that sucks*.

But you still have to pay for the work she did. The fact that you also paid her for work she didn't do-- as you should have, because work was cancelled through no fault of hers!-- has nothing to do with this.

You can't retroactively decide because you've decided she's lazy/irresponsible/a scammer/whatever that you should stiff her on money you had freely given her and/or agreed to give her in the past.

*Though you'd think grace might be warranted during COVID-- not to keep her employed, but to not think so negatively about her that you'd consider not paying her for work completed.[/quote]

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