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[quote=Anonymous]MB here.

If this is a young nanny, particularly one with friends back home, this may work beautifully.

However, I do think you need to pay for the round-trip ticket, and not feel resentful about it. Otherwise, you're asking her to gamble what will likely be at least $200 on the trip. That's a significant amount of money even for a full time nanny, and she only works 25 hours a week. It might be that the deal is worth it to her for a free plane ticket, but not for a big chunk of the money she'd earn.

It also strikes me that you're making a lot of assumptions about her family. For example, you're assuming they will happily house, feed, and provide transportation for her such that she is available to you when you have scheduled her. I suppose you can make the argument that she will have a house available to her, so food should be the same cost as at home, but what about the car? Even if there is an extra vehicle, what if the parents want to lend it to someone else, or another sibling is visiting?

Also, if you are there for two weeks, but using her weekend days (even one or two of them), will this mean she doesn't get to see family/friends who work? There are circumstances that would make this trip less enjoyable for her than you seem to think it might be, and that may lead to bad feelings on both ends.

Something about this feels exploitative, or at least like you're really trying to "milk" this no-benefit, budget nanny thing for all it's worth. No matter how "fair" you think you're being, you're taking her for your benefit, or, at least, you want your generosity for the free ticket repaid in the form of labor. I think you're going to end up resentful because you will think she should be grateful and effusive about it, and you believe the exchange is even or even skewed to her benefit, and she is likely going to be mostly feeling like she's working when she'd rather be seeing family/friends, and so not particularly grateful or effusive.[/quote]

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