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[quote=Anonymous]Our nanny took a trip back to her home country several months ago.  She was gone for about three weeks.  Her contract gives her two weeks of vacation - one of her choice and one of ours - and five sick days.  She asked if she could use all her time for the trip as she really could not afford to go without being paid.  We allowed it and paid her for the whole time - including allowing her to take the second week of vacation that was supposed to be our choice - with the agreement that she would not take additional vacation days in the year and any additional sick or emergency days would be unpaid.  We had to pay another babysitter for those three weeks as well which was tough since we had only planned on two weeks of back up care.  Her contract year runs June to June so she still has a few months before her days reset.

Today nanny shows up to work VERY sick and unable to work.  I took one look at her and sent her home.  DC is not sick and she did not catch whatever it was from my DC.  I guess I will pay her for today anyway since she clearly showed up because she did not want to take a day unpaid, but WWYD if she is sick for several more days (as I am guessing she will be). I don't want her getting DC sick but any days she takes off, we have to either take off ourselves or pay a back up sitter.  We really budget to be able to afford a nanny and pay her well so on the one hand I can't afford to give her a ton of extra days (and I feel a little taken advantage of because I was never thrilled with the situation but we like and care about our nanny and wanted to make it work for her).  On the other hand, I get that she needs the money.  If it makes a difference, in addition to her trip, she also ended up with several additional weeks of paid vacation this year because we took some time off around the holidays.[/quote]

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