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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny just started on January 3. She's already taken two sick days in the past three weeks, which happen to have been MLK Day earlier this week and inauguration day today. As outlined in her contract we only gave her the major holidays off. Of course her calling in sick the morning of both of these days makes me a bit suspicious if she just wants to stay at home with her own daughter since she knows that my husband and I are off and can take care of our son. I guess it shouldn't matter because we're deducting it from her sick days and she'll have to start using unpaid sick leave whenever she runs out of her paid sick days and it's only January, but it's making me have some trust issues/negative feelings about her, which sucks because everything else is going great.

Would this be a red flag to you? I guess we'll see what she does on President's Day.[/quote]

That is awful.  Yes, red flag, two strikes and one to go. Part of being a nanny is RELIABLE CHILDCARE.

This is a communication problem on her part - telling your boss at the last minute (i.e. when you are supposed to show up) that you are "sick" is poor form, disrespectful and disruptive. 
If she feels strongly about taking federal or school days off, off she has to notify you weeks in advance so you can get backup. Not uses a sick day. And if she has no sick days and needs to be home, it will have to be unpaid.

Tell her you are disappointed and refer her to her contract of Holidays off.  And reiterate that sick days are for being sick, not deciding to stay home. Regardless of what you or your husband do with your time - have to be in office, work from home, are taking a sick day yourself or have off.   Then say you expect this not to continue happening and let's move on for next week.

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