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Anonymous wrote:Nanny here- I think after 6 months she's accrued 1 week. If you want to be mean you can tell her to take only one week. Then the other week after another 6 months. Or she can take the extra week unpaid, then another week paid in 6 months.

This may be "fair" in a way, but you can't just pull an accrual system out the ass if you never had one to begin with, which it doesn't sound as if OP had one in place. You live and you learn.

I disagree. It is entirely standard for vacation to accrue over time; the nanny should have expected as much. If she gets two weeks a year, that works out to about .83 days per month. So, if she worked the entire month of April, she will have accrued 7.5 days by the end of December. You could offer to advance her pay for all ten days, but let her know that if she leaves the job before her anniversary date, you'll deduct the cost of the advanced vacation days from her final check.

+1. This is absolutely the standard. [/quote]

+2. I've never heard of anything other than the standard of accruing vacation over time. It's ridiculous to think you automatically get 2 weeks vacations 6 months into a job.[/quote]

Ha. Remember this thread next time the argument comes up about standard nanny benefits and practices, and you want to argue that there is no "standard", everything is up for negotiation, and all that matters is your agreement. Whether you think its standard or not, if OP doesn't have anything in the contract about accrual, there is nothing to stop the nanny from using her full vacation. Also an FYI, if you're located in MD, vacation is considered compensation by law, meaning your nanny is entitled to her vacation whether she quits, is fired, or whatever, UNLESS you specify otherwise. [/quote]

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