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[quote=Anonymous]We allowed our first nanny to take her two weeks vacation whenever she wanted. She ended up taking four weeks, combining two at the end of her first year, and then two at the beginning of her second. OK, right? Well, she returned, and quit three weeks later with 1 week's notice.

I needed a new nanny, and was looking at having to pay someone else a two-week vacation within the same year, and who knows if something might happen and we'd have the same scenario with a third nanny.

So, instead, I started doing paid time off that accrued at one day a month. That's 12 days a year, all at the nanny's scheduling discretion, and she can use it for whatever: vacation, sick days, appointments, personal days, I don't care. (We also give guaranteed hours and pay when we're out of town, so this turns out to more days than the typical two weeks (one of parents' choosing) + sick days).

It may seem to kind of suck that she has very little PTO in the first few months, but it accomplishes the same thing as a waiting period while ensuring that I will only have to cover 12 days a year, even if my current nanny has to leave for some reason. I do pay out unused days. If she wants to take a longer vacation before she has accrued the days, she can either plan to make up the hours or take those extra days unpaid.

I do payroll twice a month, so she earns a half day at each pay period.[/quote]

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