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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take it to mean 10 work days. Huh. Maybe it only never came up because our APs never work weekends?[/quote]

OP here. Our au pair takes it to mean 14 week days, because she is entitled to 14 days of vacation, and her usual schedule is weekdays only. So, by her calculation, she could be gone from Dec 1-20 and that would be her fourteen days, because only M-F days “count”.

Plus, she believes no holidays could possibly count as vacation days, and days parents have off also don’t count as vacation days.

So, applying her initial beliefs, she could literally work ONLY December 21st and the rest of the month off would be covered by vacation and “holidays”. (She’s not actually doing this - but that scenario could be the actual result based on how she assumed it worked.) Dec 1-20 vacation; Dec 21 work; Dec 22-23 weeekend do doesn’t count; Dec 24-31 “holidays”.

I share this example to demonstrate that her understanding is clearly not the program rule intent![/quote]

No way it's 14 working days. It's 45 hrs a week off. Period. That's why we never split vacation into days. Monday to Sunday off = one week of vacation. If au pair doesn't work weekends it makes the period to travel longer (Friday night or Saturday morning to next Sunday). I can't understand how she can think it's 14 working days. [/quote]

Probably in her home country 10 working days of vacation for a full year is just inconceivable.

PP is right that OP needs the LCC to be the bearer of bad news here. [/quote]

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