Reply to Nanny vacation requests

Forum Index » Employer Issues

Reply to "Nanny vacation requests"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am in need of some advice and would love to know how other people deal with vacations and Nannies. We offer two weeks vacation paid. One week during Christmas and New Years and the other week we ask in our contract for the nanny to work with us and find a vacation week that works for both parties. This way we feel that we are not using our vacation to cover for our nannies vacation. Otherwise, we would not be able to have our own time off. Our first nanny never asked for any time time off and just took the paid time that we took off as her vacation. Our new nanny has asked for a week off in August. I said that should work out for us because we also want to go to the beach. How about the first week in Augus? Her response was no I need the last week off. I said that we could be somewhat flexible and take the second week off instead, but we are not able to take off the last week because of work commitments. She was very firm that only that last week would work for her. I was a little surprised, but maybe it's because we have never had this issue. [b]How do other handle this type of situation, pay the nanny the week the family goes away and the week she wants in August?[/b] i guess I am at a loss because I wasn't expecting this conflict? [b]But maybe it's normal[/b]....[/quote]

Yes you pay her for both weeks.
Yes it is normal.[/quote]

Well said! This is all that it boils down to OP. Yes you should pay her for both weeks, and yes her request is normal. The fact that you expected to dictate 100% of your employee's time off without conflict is what is not normal. How would you feel if your boss attempted to do the same to you?[/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