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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just let it accrue and be done with it. Ask her for at least 2 weeks notice if she will take vacation so you can hire help. It is very easy to get a temp nanny. Let's not pretend an AuPair is the only option.[/quote]

It sounds like OP can’t afford a temp on top of paying AP for the vacation week.[/quote]

That should not be the AuPairs problem if the OP is THAT broke. She deserves the vacation time coming her way.  Broke people should not have live in childcare. [/quote]

OP isn’t trying to get out of paying vacation.  They’re trying to figure out how to manage it.  Most HPs can’t take a month off work all at once, which means either dragging their own 2 week vacations and foregoing any trips together or hiring someone else during that time period.

Telling someone with an AP to hire a nanny temporarily may not be in the budget.  The cheapest I know in the area is $18/hour for the nanny and $40/day for the agency.  For 40 hours/5 days, that’s $720/week for the nanny and $200 for the agency.  Add in the normal $200/week stipend for the AP and now the family is paying $1120/week.  Finding a nanny on your own to cover just a week to a month can lead to no show, tardiness, no background check, no CPR or faked references.

Asking the AP to take their vacation either as a month consecutive with their travel month or as one two week period and two single week periods makes it easier for the family to find care or cover it themselves.  If they know the AP will take all their vacation at the end; the can just have the new AP arrive a month earlier.  And maybe if they’ve been working from home without too much issue, they could negotiate to do that during AP’s vacation next year.  Whatever they do, most families find that covering a month consecutive of vacation a problem; head over to the nanny/employer portion of the forum and you can see the same issue arrive with employers of foreign-born nannies who go home every year or two for a month.[/quote]

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