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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Here's the breakdown of here time off

Just to be clear, she started on Nov 26 and by the time May 26 rolls around this year, she will have been off 4 weeks

3 days unpaid (she had to get her passport etc)
5 days accrued in May from Nov for Paid vacation + 5 days unpaid since she's going to Central america for 2 weeks
3 days sick (tomorrow is her 3rd)
2 days unpaid for helping her mom
PLUS all the holidays that have transpired since late nov

Gosh i hate to start the process already. [/quote]

I don't think it is fair to count holidays that have transpired since most nannies (and parents) have had that time off as well. Did she not take any vacation at Christmas? You didn't include anything other than what I would guess as Christmas and NY, so her taking a vacation in May seems fine. Many parents have their nannies take time off during the Christmas-NY week, and so if you had her do the same, THEN you could count extra vacation time from that too which would be a much different story.

It does seem weird that she is taking 2 weeks off when you are not using your "week" of vacation as well, but it is understandable in the way that she is going out of country and I would plan a 2 week vacation for that as well. Was this vacation brought up when you were going through the interview process? I think that if she knew she was going to do this, it should have been discussed in advance. If she didn't know and it "happened" later on, that is really something that should have been talked about with the timing of it (I would have waited to do a trip like this until at least 9 months had passed of working for someone, not 5).

I don't see how it takes 3 days of unpaid time off to get a passport, or anything else. It should have been done on her own time, not taking time off work.

2 days for helping her mom? With what? Unless her mom had an emergency, surgery or whatnot, she should have been available to you.

3 days sick? This can be quite a bit for the first few months of work, but sometimes it can't be helped. It depends on how sick she was, with what. If it was obviously something that she shouldn't come in to work for, then fine, but if ALL were for something like that, then maybe she is getting really sick too often. The last time I had taken a sick day WAS last summer, until this week. I got a horrible throat infection that came on like the flu or severe cold last weekend. Took one day off and went back to work. Then started to get new symptoms, realized I needed to go to the doctor and found out what it was. I was told to not be around anyone until I had been on antibiotics for 24 hours, which meant I lost 2 more days of work. So 3 days in one week. I felt horrible about doing it, but it had to be done and this has been the only time I have been sick with anything more than a minor cold all winter long. If I had been sick other times too and missed work, I would definitely be concerned about my jobs. I had actually tried to get seen on the first day I took off, but they had no spots even for emergency appointments, and I had seemed to be getting better with what seemed like something normal. I things had been different, I would have only had to miss 2 days but that still would have been 2 days more than I would have liked.[/quote]

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