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[quote=Anonymous]I need some help choosing the right path here.  We are working with our first nanny, who has been with us 8 months.  We pay her $18.25/hour before taxes, which we withhold. 2 kids ages 1 and 3; 3 year old is in 1/2 day preschool 5 days/week.  Ffx county.  She is not a fluent English speaker, so there is a bit of a language barrier in our communications.  She is lovely with the kids and they adore her.  Our nanny agreement states 2 weeks vacation (1 we choose and 1 she chooses); 1 week PTO, and all federal holidays.  After we hired her, we learned that she already had a 2 week trip home planned.  She proposed and we allowed her to use her vacation week and week of PTO then.  So she has no available sick leave.  We let her take the kids with her to a monthly Drs appointment so she doesn't have to use unpaid leave for that.

Today she had to stay home with a terrible virus, which she caught from our kids.  We offered her to make up the time later this week, even though we don't really need more hours, so she won't lose 8 hours of pay.  I thought that was the kind thing to do, but she is giving me a guilt trip for not giving her the paid day, saying I pay her very little.

This is my first time employing a nanny, and I would like to be a kind, fair, predictable employer.  Am I handeling this appropriately?

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