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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We put in our nanny's contract that they get two weeks of paid vacation per year - one week at their choosing (that they need to let us know at least one month in advance) and one week at our choosing.

Often times when we are on vacation and our nanny technically isn't, we ask them to go to our house to get mail, water plants, etc. Sometimes we have repair work done when we're not there so we want the nanny to meet those people, etc.[/quote]

Nanny here - i don’t get the outrage at this comment... one week of nanny’s choosing and one of the family’s is pretty standard. Asking for some small tasks when she’s not on the week of her choosing (even non-child-related) is pretty much like every job I’ve ever had and I don’t know many nannies that have guaranteed hours that don’t water plants and fetch mail on occasion... we just consider ourselves lucky to have paid vacation at all. [/quote]

A nanny’s job directly relates to children, not home/pet care when the family is gone. If vacation of one week of each party’s choosing is mutually agreed upon, fine, but that in no way addresses families using nannies do housesitting when they are out of town. If you are washing their underpants, tending to their pets, house sitting, cleaning, etc., it is because you cannot get a better job. I’m great at what I do and if I get the random perk of an extra week off when working for above average but still low pay, then I’m taking it! [/quote]

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