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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it 14 days of work time or two weeks including weekends? I am confused by this. [/quote]

It's 45 hrs a week. If she works on weekends she should have off on weekends toi. It's not like you can give her off time Monday-Friday and let her work 10hrs Saturday and Sunday.[/quote]

[b]It’s supposed to be two weeks of calendar time without work.[/b][/quote]

Hello AP troll!

No, it is not. First of all, no host family has to give all vacation time together. Second, it's [u]nice[/u] if the au pair has weekends off that the family not schedule the weekend before or after the vacation. Not an obligation. And third, depending on the agency and LCC, some really advocate a model of "earned" vacation so an au pair doesn't demand two weeks in the first month, then skip out on the family.[/quote]

Nice try, I'm a nanny, not an AP.  I never said it had to be consecutive or couldn't be accrued.  Many Aps take two consecutive weeks during their 11th or 12th month, and that works; what doesn't work is if the family just shifts around hours instead of actually giving a vacation.

A friend was an AP, and I told her to go to the LCC about the following:  She normally worked M-F (45 hours), requested Th-F off as vacation days.  Family had her work the S/S instead that week (still 45 hours), but allowed the days off.  Later in the summer, they told her she couldn't have the two vacation days, as she had used them, but they had just switched days, not given her paid vacation days.  THAT is what I meant by 14 calendar days.  Moving hours from the normal workweek into days that are normally off isn't vacation.  Perhaps I should have phrased it as 14 calendar days off, including both day that are normally worked and days that are normally off?[/quote]

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