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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Professional nanny here. That is, nanny being my profession for last 16 hrs and that's how I make my living. I too take 2 weeks paid (Thanksgiving, Christmas) and 2 weeks unpaid every summer, plus 5 personal paid days off to go to appointments or if I am sick. It's in my contract but even if it wouldn't be, most parents understand that nannies are not robots and [b]need summer break [/b]as well. I cannot imagine my employers denying that provided they had 4-8 week notice. [/quote]

There's nothing magical about summer that people need a break during that season. OP's nanny WANTS a break. Quire frankly, the nanny should have planned the vacations she wanted for the year at the start of the year.  You had two unpaid weeks written into your contract. That means the parents can plan for that and expect it.That's not the case with OP. [/quote]

Nanny took a paid week during the pandemic, but she didn’t travel, just stayed home to take a mental health break.  She’s asking for a single unpaid week after sip starts lifting.  Nobody planned ahead for the pandemic, nobody.

If she had taken all of her vacation prior to the pandemic, I’d be questioning how, since OP said she’s been with the family for 1.5 years.  But it sounds like she used time during the pandemic because she NEEDED it, and now she’s asking for an unpaid week because she NEEDS it.  If you don’t want to do it, fire her, but be upfront with your next nanny that you fired the last for asking for an unpaid week after sip lifted.[/quote]

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