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[quote=Anonymous]With all due respect, Nanny Sherri, but I have to second that this is terrible advice. If you are actually a nanny, please re-evaluate whether you are being taken advantage of by your employer, understand that you possess a valuable set of skills and experience, and remember that you deserve to be employed by someone who appreciates you as much as you do them.

And please note that OP titled this post "Does the nanny have a say?" and was asking specifically if she could "legally loan out" her nanny and "what the laws on that" are. OP was explicitly asking if he or she has to talk to the nanny at all, and you should not suggest that, in lieu of commanding her to work for an unknown, unvetted family, OP attempt to manipulate her into either that or other work that is clearly not her job.

It is also worth noting that OP was given an "additional" vacation. If this is because OP's own office is closed for a national holiday, is it acceptable to give the hourly janitorial staff an unpaid day off and to ask OP to come in and clean the toilets for free? After all - OP is being paid her minimum salary regardless, so what's the big deal? In fact, if the office bathrooms are already clean, then maybe OP could be loaned out for some landscaping across the street. I'm sure they wouldn't mind compensating OP's employer - it would be a steal!

The point is this: If it sounds absurd for OP, and it clearly does, then it is absurd to ask her nanny. This is not a matter of asking nicely, it is a matter of respecting the individual and the job you have hired her to do just as you would want to be respected for the work that you do.[/quote]

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