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[quote=Anonymous]She chose to go though. I don't think that just because she did work some hours that meant she should get more than her normal pay. Yes she would have gotten paid anyways if she stayed home, but the guaranteed pay is for whether the family needed her or not. If she went and they needed her, then that is what her normal pay covers. If she didn't want to work and still get paid her normal amount, she had the chance to stay home.

It wasn't meant to be a free vacation to her. It was a working vacation with quite a bit of free time and the chance to bring her BF along as well. While I think that most stuff should have been covered for her anyways, if I chose to go out on my own for dinner each night, and out to clubs etc I wouldn't expect the family to pay for that. That would be out of pocket. If I didn't want to pay for my own dinner, then I would eat with the family as that WOULD be covered.

It's like when you go to college. The cafeteria is included in the food you pay for each semester, the pizza place down the street is not. OP was very nice about paying for these for both nanny and her BF. OP made it clear to her nanny that this was a Christmas gift to her. If the nanny did not want that as a Christmas gift, then she could have turned it down. She could have said I will cover my own extras, I would rather have a bonus instead to do with as I please. I don't think OP would have minded that option. There is more of a chance of nanny and BF taking advantage of no bill to them and splurging instead of nanny paying and deciding to keep costs low so she doesn't have to fork over as much.

If they feel like they aren't satisfied, then they should have decided to not go. I don't see how you can decide to say yes to all of the above and then decide you aren't satisfied with how things went to the extreme that you ask for money from your employer when you get home.

The only thing the nanny was owed from the whole experience (or possibly not going) was her usual pay, and the issue with how she received her Christmas gift (which is not always a nannies choice for the latter).

To go into something with the expectations that her going would mean she were to earn MORE money on top of her usual pay, for less work (it is a different story if it is the same amount or MORE work) is messed up. That person is then greedy.

If she had decided not to go, she would have gotten her normal pay AND had an extra week of vacation that she normally wouldn't have. That extra week of vacation is not something that she can turn in to the MB and try to get more pay because she actually worked instead of taking it off. A freebie is not worth extra cash, it was free and not in the contract.[/quote]

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