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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our nanny has 10 PTO to be used at her discretion in addition to 6 standard holidays. She burns through it all and also takes unpaid time between doctors appointments, family commitments, long absences (2-4) for common illnesses, and short vacations. We also give her our vacations off paid. Overall in her first year she had about 5 weeks of paid time off total in addition to a few days of unpaid time off.

We seem unable to get a handle on the situation. She is very good with our son and professional, and works hard. She is a good nanny. He is happy. We thought, if she needs all this time due to chronic illnesses (both real and imagined) and managing her undiagnosed anxiety, so be it. We declined to give her a raise (we started high anyway) and planned to use the "savings" to pay for backup care. But, *how* she manages her frequent time off has precluded our ability to actually schedule backup care, hence my question.

The idea would be to make it unpaid time if we are given notice after 2pm and it is the second (or later) day of a stretch of time off. But I wanted to know both how common this situation is and how others manage it.[/quote]

This describes my part-time nanny exactly.  It's an issue, but she's gotten better at giving notice over time.  It helps a lot that I don't have to plan back-up care - my son can just go to the school after care.  We had a different nanny when he was a baby, and she was almost NEVER sick or out unexpectedly  - maybe one or two days with the flu over 2 years.  If she had been as unreliable as our current nanny it would have been a much bigger issue, because back-up care would have been much harder to arrange.  [/quote]

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