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[quote=Anonymous][quote]3 weeks is NOT the norm. Sure SOME families may offer that but that is not what is normal. 2 weeks is normal and that is what I currently get/have always gotten. Some families will do 1 week of the nannies choice and 1 week of the families choice or some will just let the nanny choose her two weeks.

I always try and coordinate at least one of my weeks with my NF's vacations. I just took off the week of the 4th and was planning a Bahamas trip for this winter and coordinated it with my NF for when they will be going to FL without me. You could certainly ask her to coordinate at least one week with yours as I think that is totally reasonable.

As far as federal holidays, I currently get Federal Holidays paid off but not all of those small ones that you listed. I get Thanksgiving (as well as the day after), Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Day and Memorial Day. I don't care about the small holidays at all and there is no reason why you need to give her those off.

I also get 5 sick/personal days a year also. So 2 weeks of paid vacation of my choice and then 5 sick/personal days.[/quote]

This is basically the package we have for our nanny. Technically, we pick one of her two weeks and she chooses the other, but in practice, we discuss vacations and often overlap. If she had a particular reason to want to choose both weeks (special trip or something), we would accommodate that. We could never offer three weeks paid vacation all at once. We would lose all our leave covering that and we wouldn't have any vacation time for our family. That would not be fair.

Now, if our nanny wanted to visit family internationally, she could take her paid week, coordinate with our vacation and have two weeks paid and either confine her trip to two weeks, or we would allow up to another week UNPAID. If she wanted to take an extra week unpaid, I could hire a backup nanny affordably for that week. I'd be happy to accommodate that situation.

As for holidays, I am not a Fed, so I don't get all Federal holidays off. We offer the paid holidays we get, and the extra days the PP above gets because they are days and half days my work usually gives us.

We also lump sick/personal days and offer five PTO days, hours accrued over time because we could not accommodate our nanny if she chose to take them all at once and call them extra vacation. Of course, if our nanny is ill or has an emergency and has only accrued 2 days and needs 3, we would definitely advance it. We don't roll over any vacation or PTO from year to year. For one thing, we want our nanny to take full advantage of her time off and take care of herself. Secondly, we can't afford to roll it. That said, if she were to leave in the middle of the year, we would definitely pay out the year's accrued time.

I hope this helps. The only additional advice I would give you is to be very specific in your contract about holidays, PTO, all of this. We have spelled everything out and have had no problem with our nanny. She will be with us five years next month, so the above policies are working for us.[/quote]

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