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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have in our nanny's contract that she has guaranteed hours plus 2 weeks of vacation every year.  She started with us in September, and she has already used her 2 weeks of vacation this year.  We have gone on vacation 2 other weeks, and will be on vacation for a third week this summer.  Those two weeks were paid, and she has used them to take trips and visit friends as well.  
This week coming up, she asked if she could go on a 2 week trip with her friends.  She has no vacation time left, but we have a solid back-up sitter, and I told her that it was fine, but she would need to take it unpaid.  
She just gave me something today with the days that she is taking no pay (first week of her trip), then saying that she expects to be paid for the week that we are on vacation (second week of her trip).  
She feels like she should be paid while we are on vacation because that is part of her guaranteed salary, and if she wasn't out of town, we would be paying her anyway.  But it just doesn't sit right with me.  Is this typical?  
We have only hired a family friend in the past, and she either took our vacations unpaid, or she did stuff around the house while we were gone.   
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To play devil's advocate: we are only hearing a small part of information. Perhaps she accepted lower hourly pay from you because it was agreed that she would typically get extra vacation time when you're gone. This might not be the case, and I'm not trying to start an argument, but it's a thought. If she's worked for you since September, it's not strange that she's used up her two weeks of vacation already -- September is only a month and a half away! She might have taken her vacation earlier because it would be an inconvenience to you if she took vacation close to the start of school. Why does it matter which of the two weeks she will be taking unpaid? [/quote]

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