Anonymous wrote:I am in need of some advice and would love to know how other people deal with vacations and Nannies. We offer two weeks vacation paid. One week during Christmas and New Years and the other week we ask in our contract for the nanny to work with us and find a vacation week that works for both parties. This way we feel that we are not using our vacation to cover for our nannies vacation. Otherwise, we would not be able to have our own time off. Our first nanny never asked for any time time off and just took the paid time that we took off as her vacation. Our new nanny has asked for a week off in August. I said that should work out for us because we also want to go to the beach. How about the first week in Augus? Her response was no I need the last week off. I said that we could be somewhat flexible and take the second week off instead, but we are not able to take off the last week because of work commitments. She was very firm that only that last week would work for her. I was a little surprised, but maybe it's because we have never had this issue. How do other handle this type of situation, pay the nanny the week the family goes away and the week she wants in August? i guess I am at a loss because I wasn't expecting this conflict? But maybe it's normal....
Ask her why.
Find out what her real interest is here.
Is it to save a couple bucks on a flight? Or travel with her buddy or what?
I agree that is a tough time to not have your regular nanny -- if your kids are in school or sports.
In all my jobs I have had to get signed approval for my personal vacations. No reason why a nanny job should be different.
And yes, nannies never use pick their vacation times until after you tell them when you are off for winter, summer, spring breaks and holidays. Duh. They want to get paid for more vacation! Or pay a retainer fee, if the contract says that (typically the guarantees hours or a flat $500)
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