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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If I had a nanny resign one week before a planned vacation that she knew about and one week before she is due to start her new job, I would be livid and there is no chance that I would pay her for my vacation week. For goodness sake, you'll already be drawing a paycheck from your new job! Guaranteed payment for time that the employer does not need you is contingent upon your availability to work. If you have already started a new job by the time your current employer goes out of town, you are not available to work for them and therefore have no basis for getting paid. That kind of double dipping is not playing fair, and you know it.

Despite your differences in caring for the boys and the fact that you feel underpaid, it sounds like this family has been fair with you in terms of compensation and time off when you've needed it. Why would you leave them in a lurch? That kind of behavior will come back to hurt you someday. Most responsible nanny-employers require contact information for all recent jobs, and given that you've worked with this family for almost a year, they WILL be called by some employer you want to work for in the future.

Also, I think nannies overestimate the threat of being let go early. It takes a fairly long time to find a new nanny, finalize a contract, and wait out her notice period to her current employer. Do you really think your current family is not going to find someone new and start her right before they leave town? No, you are just looking for a way to get paid by two employers for the week your current family is out of town.

This kind of s--t reflects so poorly on nannies as a group. Do yourself and your nanny peers a favor and tell your current employer now that your last day of work will be the last day before their vacation. Four weeks is an appropriate amount of notice. At minimum, you should provide two weeks notice, meaning two weeks prior to their scheduled vacation.

She doesn't have to be available to the during what is likely her vacation as well. Even if OP gives notice 2 weeks before the vacation, you would be surprised the number of employers who would try to wriggle out of paying her for that vacation time, and you sound exactly like one of them. That kind of s--t reflects so poorly on MBs as a group, and is the very reason OP is getting the advice you see here. Almost all of us have had an employer screw us in some manner upon quitting. We have to protect ourselves, whether you like it or not.[/quote]

NP here. So you think it is fine for a nanny to double dip and lie about it?

That attitude is what reflects so poorly on nannies as a group.

Funny you think it is fine to screw with employers this way.[/quote]

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