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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First of all, we've mostly been happy with our nanny. It's not a perfect relationship, but she takes care of our daughter well and we feel safe with her. She works with us semi full-time (FT) MWF. During Tues and Thurs, she nannies a different a family in our neighborhood (I found her this job btw, although she's not very happy with them).

She is under an at-will employment with us. We give her two weeks vacation pay annually, 5 days of sick pay, and she gets Federal Holidays off. Even then, she keeps asking if she gets Spring Break off (my toddler doesn't have Spring Break!), Lincoln Day (What is this even?), etc. Under agency terms, she's also not supposed to get Black Friday off, but we've given this to her as a paid holiday.

She went on vacation for 2-weeks this year, and since my husband and I have full-time jobs, we had to find an alternative childcare for our toddler. We found this childcare facility that was supposed to just be temporary, but our daughter was really thriving. She loves it there!

So my husband and I decided to keep my daughter there. However, we also want to be fair employers. Nanny has been complaining about the many bills she has to pay - how her truck needs to get fixed and it cost her $800, how heating at home needs to be fixed at it cost her $2k, etc.

It would be unfair for her to return from vacation only to find out she no longer has a job. We wanted to be fair to her so we decided that instead of the 24 hours per week she has to work for, we cut her hours down to just 6. She only has to come a couple hours every other day to help out. BUT her salary REMAINS THE SAME. If we do the math here, she's like making $70 per hour, $140 for 2 hours - almost more than my husband and I! To try to offset that, my husband asked if she could come a few hours during the week. I need this so I could catch up on chores, etc.

However, nanny refused. She says she likes to go hiking on weekends with her husband. I understand, no one wants to work on weekends, but since we're paying her FT for PT work, we kind of expected she would be ok with it. She wasn't; she wanted to only work 6 hours (with the same pay). This is supposed to only just be for short-term too, until my daughter goes to preschool in a few months.

She also actually committed via text at first, but later recanted her statement saying she misunderstood it to mean just ONE Saturday. But ok, I'm going to just chalk that up to her probably really misunderstanding it even though it was really clear. She even told me she's very thankful that I'm keeping my word; other employers would have just let her go.

I'm really just disappointed in her. My expectation was that she take our offer or she quits since schedule doesn't work anymore. Not tell me she'd rather do 6 hours with the same salary as if she were FT.

The problem is, I also have two upcoming business trips. For one of the trips, we're tagging her along. Flights and hotels have already been paid for. My friend suggested to just terminate her employment (since this is at-will employment anyway) and find someone else to tag along. But that's going to be really hard. I don't want my daughter trying to have to re-adjust to a new person in a different place! It'll be too stressful for her and us.

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I also want to add - she's been complaining about her other employer telling us they wouldn't pay her during her 2-week vacation. But they didn't sign a contract nor any form of agreement has been made. She just had the different expectations coming into that job.[/quote]

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