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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take 8 weeks vacation per year. Only 3 are paid and the rest are unpaid. I'm European and you guys don't value family time and leave. My boss uses agencies and has temps fill in. It's not hard. I've been with my family 5 years. I know this isn't the norm and I'm grateful because Americans are unreasonable about vacation time. [/quote]

It's great that your bosses are so flexible, but eight weeks is NOT the norm in most European countries, I would say a more typical number in the countries I'm familiar with is four weeks.

Back to the OP's issue - it is very common, but not universal for foreign-born nannies to take extended vacations of three weeks or more to their home country, but I've never heard of anyone doing so more than once a year without extenuating circumstances (e.g., death in family).  I'm an MB and I probably wouldn't agree to an extended trip requiring unpaid leave more than biannually only because we've had mixed success with temps.  If my kid were older, I would be more accommodating.[/b]

Europe is minimum 4 weeks, usually 6. [/quote]

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