Reply to Nanny and employer maternity leave

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "Nanny and employer maternity leave"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]MB here. My nanny worked through my maternity leave with #3 at her regular salary. The other two kids were in kindergarten and 3 day/4 hours pre-school respectively. Nanny took care of them outside of the school hours, plus handled the drop offs/pick ups at preschool. That was also an arrangement for a few months before #3's birth.

Looking back at it, I think I did not manage it properly. Nanny got very used to her free paid time, spent a lot of time on her phone/internet and running personal errands during her free time. She got so addicted to her phone, that even pre-school teacher complained about her doing it at drop offs (she would come too early with my son and type away on her phone while my son was bored out of his mind by the classroom door). When it came time to watch the baby (and we bumped her salary) her main goal was to get the baby to sleep ASAP in a swing, so that she continue to type, or she would drag the baby to her bank and other places without telling us about it... Obviously, we let her go soon after. Before all that happened she was a good nanny to our 2 older kids and was with us since #2 birth, but she enjoyed the easier job so much she could not recover.

I think our nanny was an exception rather than the rule, but my point is that it is too easy to get used to easier schedule, while older kids are in school and the family is keeping the nanny full time while awaiting #3. And when the nanny has to watch #3, even with a bump in salary, it is making her life much much harder. While I've asked her to do things like children's laundry in her free time, and that was in the contract, she would only do it if I reminded her that morning. So, please manage your nanny while she has free time or you would be like us: I felt that for paying her for full time time my children get continuity benefit, and at the end I had to find a new nanny for them anyway.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics