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[quote=Anonymous]Our nanny started mid-October and gets two weeks of vacation, one week of my choosing.  The contract states that vacation accrual begins January 1st 2017, but since we were going away for the holidays anyway, I asked her if she wanted to take one week's paid vacation (the week of our choosing) before she earned it.  I told her that this would leave her with no PTO until the middle of the year.  I guess she did not fully understand the ramifications because the other day, she told me she wanted to take a Friday and a Monday off in early February so she could go on a long weekend trip to FL.  I reminded her she had no PTO until the second half of the year and she got upset.  Our contract is really clear about the vacation policy, but now I realize that she doesn't look at it or remember what it says.  She asked me if she could take the days unpaid or have someone substitute for her and I said no.  She had excessive lateness issues the first couple months and already took an unpaid day in December.  I am trying to be firm about the amount of TO she takes, paid or not, whether she finds us a sub or not.  I want the person working for us to be there every day except her two weeks' vacation, when she is sick or if something extraordinary comes up.

Having said all that, I get the impression that this trip is something special.  Someone invited her on this trip and it sounds like maybe it is partially paid for.  I am willing to consider letting her go as unpaid leave but only if she does me a favor, such as babysit for no pay on a date night.  Most of me thinks this is a bad idea, there is more downside than upside to my idea and I should just leave it alone.  I was wondering how nannies on this board would feel about this proposal, though.  Would you be offended and interpret my proposal as me being grabby by trying to get free babysitting?  Or a reasonable effort to compromise?  For the record, this is not my cheap way to get free babysitting, my husband and I have no problem affording a babysitter and we have a date night sitter who we prefer watch DC for date nights, not the nanny.  And I would much, much prefer the status quo, i.e., nanny takes care of DC and does not go on this trip.  My only motivation in making this suggestion is to give nanny the opportunity to go on this trip, but not freely (so as not to set bad precedent) and only if it is that important to her that she's willing to do something for us in return.  I am leaning against it but would like to hear what others think.[/quote]

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