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[quote=Anonymous]MB here, and I do not recommend that you have your nanny clean the house or whatever else while you are gone.  You pay for a nanny, and can't turn her into a personal assistant just because you get more vacation time than you give.  What you CAN (reasonably, in my opinion) do is ask her to travel with you so you get vacation time w/o kids, or pay extra to have her watch kids for week.  That makes sense, understanding that it will cost a bit more, of course.

Personally, we get 20 days and our nanny gets 10, but I use the other 10 for an occasional long weekend (we give the nanny off on those Fridays or Mondays and we pay her), or to cover days when child is too sick for nanny (rare, but nanny still paid), and to cover my nanny's 3 paid sick days.  If you do take 4 weeks of vacation and don't split the, up or take her with you, you should pay her for those days you don't need her.  Perhaps try to negotiate something else next time if it bothers you, but making up hours and pet sitting is a very cheap and demeaning approach and I wouldn't go there if you love the nanny and have a good relationship with her.

It would also be fair, as someone suggested to negotiate hourly rate down based on above average amount of vacation time, but it can't just be 4 weeks you choose, or you may not get any takers.[/quote]

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