Emergency Back-Up Care

[Anonymous]

Both in centers and in private daycare homes, it's legally mandated that every family has on file three nearby emergency numbers.
Why don't we do the same, or have at least one backup option, for when nanny is absolutely too sick to work?

Trying to make sick people come into work is asking for trouble.

That's exactly how lots of people get food poisoning. A sick person was in the kitchen. Please do not take that kind of risk with your own children.

[Anonymous]

How many new threads are you going to post today?

[Anonymous]

Mad?

[Anonymous]

Annoyed.

[Anonymous]

Solutions are good.

[Anonymous]

How many new threads are you going to post today?

Agreed.

We get it. You were sick. You went to work, for whatever reason. You should have stayed home. You hate your MB.

[Anonymous]

No, I don't think you get it. No one here hates the parents of the children with whom they work. Stop being so defensive. Otherwise, you can't move forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many new threads are you going to post today?

What do you do when Nanny is sick and you have a critically important meeting and DB is on travel?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many new threads are you going to post today?

What do you do when Nanny is sick and you have a critically important meeting and DB is on travel?

You figure it out. It's not your nanny's problem.

[Anonymous]

Yes! That's it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many new threads are you going to post today?

What do you do when Nanny is sick and you have a critically important meeting and DB is on travel?

You figure it out. It's not your nanny's problem.

Right - if I have to pay somebody else to come from work, it comes out of nanny's pay. As of now, I drained all of my sick leave and most of my annual leave for all of our nanny's weekly 1/2 days of Dr appointments. Now, I have to find back up care myself and it will most definitely come out of her pay now. I have no choice. I have almost no leave left because of the nanny.

[Anonymous]

So actually, it will be my nanny's problem when her weekly paycheck is 20% lighter. Or more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many new threads are you going to post today?

What do you do when Nanny is sick and you have a critically important meeting and DB is on travel?

You figure it out. It's not your nanny's problem.

Right - if I have to pay somebody else to come from work, it comes out of nanny's pay. As of now, I drained all of my sick leave and most of my annual leave for all of our nanny's weekly 1/2 days of Dr appointments. Now, I have to find back up care myself and it will most definitely come out of her pay now. I have no choice. I have almost no leave left because of the nanny.

What are you talking about?

If your specific nanny has used up her PTO, then she simply doesn't get paid for future absent days. That's fine. That's not the same as not having back-up care arranged when your reliable nanny gets struck down with a bug one day and refusing to pay her for it because you were inconvenienced.

[Anonymous]

It's not as easy as it sounds. I have three back-up services (White House Nannies, Bright Horizons, and Attentive Care). I have still had several days when my nanny was sick and no substitute could be found at the last minute. It's not my nanny's fault, and I pay her sick leave. But it will be her problem when I transition to a more reliable childcare solution (i.e. daycare). It is just not tenable for DH and I to miss so much work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not as easy as it sounds. I have three back-up services (White House Nannies, Bright Horizons, and Attentive Care). I have still had several days when my nanny was sick and no substitute could be found at the last minute. It's not my nanny's fault, and I pay her sick leave. But it will be her problem when I transition to a more reliable childcare solution (i.e. daycare). It is just not tenable for DH and I to miss so much work.

Completely understandable, and I just want to say that it's not reasonable for her to miss "so much work" either. I've used one sick day in the last two and a half years and felt bad about it the whole day. Sorry you got landed with someone either sickly or unreliable (or both)!