We have had a nanny all of pandemic. She called out sick 2ce. Neither was covid. Once she came down with a migraine middle of the day and another time she had something else. We wrote 5 sick days into contract and vacation. But in reality since shes so reliable and came to watch sick (not covid) kids multiple times we ended up with unlimited vacation/random days off. Shes asked for long weekends several times and we paid every tome we went on vacation which has been 4 weeks this year. She had been very covid cautious and doesnt go out much and masks etc. Previous nanny of 3 years also took very little sick leave. We both WOH and have stressful schedules so need reliability and planning ahead. Someone who is sick a lot or catches my kids germs would not work for us.

Planning to fire my nanny for this very reason. It’s ridiculous. If I took 3-4 days a month off work for being sick, I would be fired too.

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Anonymous wrote:If she's had 12 sick days this year as of July, and you also have COVID related exposure days off, that's a lot. Agreed you may need to look into backup daycare, and ultimately evaluate whether she's the right fit for your family.

The problem is nannies who take advantage of employers and milk the "COVID" even when it's not a verified illness. Yes, she gets off if she or your family member has COVID per a test, but not for "potential COVID" or exposure which is, frankly, everywhere.

+1. My nanny asked if we were going to give her a day off after she got back from her vacation for covid testing, as we had done earlier in the pandemic. If so, she would take a cheaper early flight the day she was due back since she “would have the day to test and rest”. I told her that she would just need to have the negative antigen test before coming in, but no extra day off. She then made sure she would be back the day before.