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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is fine to offer.  Does she have a guaranteed hours? If so, then I think you would have to pay something above and beyond our normal weekly pay, since she would be getting her normal weekly pay just to hang out at home and do nothing for the week.  I would schedule her for fist specific hours that you plan to meet her (around the same number of hours that she normally would work), and then also pay a) all expenses related to her being there for the week (food, travel, lodging) and 2) a specific fee for the inconvenience of being away from home (this amount will depend on your relationship with her, what her normal pay is, whether she is bringing her daughter, etc.

Many nannies are open to this, and their feelings about it range from being thrilled to have what they regard as a free vacation to being annoyed that their bosses are "walking all over them" by being forced to work outside of their normal milieu.  I think the best thing to do is to figure out exactly what hours you will need, exactly what kind of space she will have, what other activities will be available to her during off hours (will you be on the beach or near civilization or both?) then write up a document with all of this information and discuss it with her. Gauge her response and be open to negotiation or to her turning it down.  If I were the one being asked, I would be very excited to get to spend time with my charge, whom I love, doing something exciting and fun to both of us. And I would love to be able to bring along my own child on a working vacation.  But, as I said, nannies can be all over the map about this sort of thing.

Figure out what you want and what you think would be reasonable to pay for it and then ask her if she is interested.[/quote]

My initial thought as a nanny is that I would want my weekly paycheck to remain unchanged.  I'd certainly be willing to work the same amount of hours at different times, but I simply would not be able to afford to take home less than I normally do - even for free food and lodging for a week at the beach.  [/quote]

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