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[quote=Anonymous]I have a bit of a dilemma:

Our summer nanny is guaranteed 40 hours a week, and then we pay her an hourly rate after that. She asked for a half day off later this week well in advance so I arranged to take that time off from work. She will still get her full weekly pay (would be unlikely to put her under 40 hours anyway). We have also paid her when she had to take time off sick, i.e. we honour the minimum pay we have guaranteed. However, she has just said she needs tomorrow off to complete an assignment for night school (she did try to text and call my cell yesterday, which I didn't have with me, not sure why she didn't try the landline). I will need to find a temp nanny and it doesn't seem right to me to have to pay two people for one day of childcare in this circumstance. Does it seem fair to either tell her that I need to deduct the cost of the temp nanny from her pay (it might not be too high as both kids are in school in the mornings, so I might be able to do the school drop off and pick up myself & just have someone come in the afternoon), or just the equivalent of her one day's pay, or ask her to work an extra day on a weekend?

Thanks for any input.[/quote]

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