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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You uprooted her and unless she did something so horrible as to endanger your child's life, you need to do a lot more than one month's pay.  Presumably, there is a contract, what does it say?  I would give her a ticket home, three months pay, a pre-paid phone for three months and three months paid insurance.[/quote]

This, though I doubt the nanny has a fair contract, otherwise OP wouldn’t be asking. [/quote]

I asked because I care.

[Approaching soapbox]

[Fully perched atop soapbox]

Our diligent hiring process produced a well-educated US citizen nanny with English as first language.  Her K includes basic fairness, warranties, and expectations like communication, guaranteed hours, extra pay for extra hours, EFT, insurance, phone, we pay all of her taxes, vacation, sick policy, and even more goodies.

We recruited and retained this fine young lady because of our research on how to attract and keep great talent. Also, importantly, we are employers who are self-made and therefore empathize with her and seek to build and empower her. We know that her nanny time will come to a natural end (if she's not fired in this instance or any future instances).  But we'd like to set her up to run her own business / walk into an established business by the time she leaves us.

Attack me for being petty. But do not attack me for having a lopsided K. The shit I hear from word-of-mouth about how these nannies are treated is repulsive (no eating as a family, no off time in the presence of family, dad's gone wild, diva mom's, no food, mentally abusive, funny money, and the list goes on and on and on).

But at my own house, i've got to draw the line somewhere. If it ain't working, she has to go. Good intentions aside.

[Out of breath, stepping down from the soapbox]

[Back on the ground again]

At the end of the day, it is a job. It's just like the one I have, I have to perform. Baseline performance keeps me hired. Failing in basic areas gets me fired. Same here. Unlike my job, however, who could let me go without cause and wave goodbye on a whim, I do care and I want to do more than wave goodbye to her...like the law entitles me to do. In short, I want to do right by her. So that's why I asked y'all. I am trying to gather information. 
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You stage directions aren't even remotely funny.  They just show why this nanny wants out.[/quote]

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