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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, if nanny is unexpectedly ill, leave for that will not be requested in advance.  I anticipate asking to be notified by 6 am if an emergency or unexpected illness will prevent nanny from coming to work.  The one week notice for one day just helps with planning so if nanny has a scheduled appointment or something that will take a day or less I will be able to notify my office with enough time as well.

I guess I was hoping that by making the remaining 8 days PTO as opposed to designating some of it as vacation and some of it as sick leave, that offering technically less total time would be okay.

Nanny would be working a 5 day week.  We always go on one week long vacation a year and Nanny would have that week off with pay.  We might use the 4 days at our discretion that week or at other times (i.e., for long weekends).  The remaining 8 days would be for Nanny to use as she wanted so she could have two 5-day blocks if she chose to use 5 of the 8 days to take a week long vacation.[/quote]

Sorry, PP here that just saw this.

There is no way you can do what you have planned! Nanny needs to be able to have 2 x week long vacations throughout the year. One week her choice, one week yours. If you wanted to add extra time in for you to use as a day here, a day there, then that is fine. But you cannot take that out of what should be her 2 weeks of vacation. Then add on at least 3 days of PTO (sick days, doctor's appts etc), if you wanted to add in days for your PTO (long weekends) then do that. Or you could just plan on giving your nanny guaranteed hours (if it is a 40 hour week, always offering 40 hours a week or more). If you take a long weekend and don't need her that Friday, then give her the day off paid. It won't kill you if you randomly decide to do something last minute. If you were to decide to go out of town on the weekend before, that wouldn't give her enough time to really plan on using the day to her advantage (planning her own trip for that weekend, setting up doctor appt for that day etc) as all that stuff needs more advance notice. She would most likely use that day off to run errands or do nothing at home etc. It becomes more of a "wasted day" in terms of vacation for her and I wouldn't be a happy nanny if my family did that to me instead of giving me a full 2 weeks of vacation throughout the year.[/quote]

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