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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny had scheduled a beach trip for this week, starting on Thursday.  She checked the weather last night and it looked like it was going to be a rainy weekend, so she told me today she's not going and is going to find another weekend.

I have already booked another caregiver to cover her time off, and she's already come over to meet the kids, etc.  I'm sure she turned down other jobs to keep these days free.

I'm leaning towards just telling my nanny to take the days off anyway, and eating the cost of having this other sitter come for 2 days.

Is that the right thing to do here?[/quote]

This is a tough one. You definitely don't want to cancel on a back-up caregiver the first time you've booked her!

In many jobs, it's no big deal to cancel leave and go to work instead. In a job where someone has been hired to fill in for you, though, you might not be able to. She doesn't have to go to the beach, but she can't cancel her leave either. Maybe she can find somewhere else to go. You should not be on the hook to pay two people for one job AND still owe your nanny those vacation days.

If you feel like this is not something she will understand without an explanation, and she will resent you forever for "forcing" her to use her paid time off, then you need to explain to her that in the future, once she has decided on leave, it's on the calendar. You won't change it within 30 days or two weeks or whatever your rule is about asking for time off. Whatever the minimum amount of time ahead she's supposed to tell you about her leave, that's the last day she can change or cancel it.[/quote]

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