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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny here.  If she's used that much PTO, it would be a red flag, but not necessarily a firing offense unless it went over her allotted PTO/sick leave.

The firing offense (to me) is that she didn't make sure she was positive about your vacation dates when she booked her own travel, then she expected you to cover that week rather than rescheduling and swallowing the costs.  There is zero reason that that level of disregard should be tolerated, and it doesn't matter if she's been with you 5 months or 5 years.[/quote]

MB here and I agree with this.  You can't fire someone because she's sick (although if she gets sick all the time maybe caring for small children is not really a good line of work for her) but you *can* fire her for the vacation mixup.  That's crazy, and after how caring you've been about the sick stuff she should have eaten the costs involved and cancelled or rearranged.

Give her 1 month and start looking.  You deserve to have reliable child care, and someone who has consideration for your time.  Think about the vacation issue, not the sick thing.
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