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[quote=Anonymous]Under normal conditions I don't think it appropriate to borrow someone's nanny or ask your nanny to work for free at someone else's house because you don't need them. "We are on vacation this week so can you go to my cousin's and watch her kids (or clean her house) since we are paying you anyway" is not good and would lead to resentment. It is not the same as a nurse being asked to cover a different unit or a server being asked to work a shift in another restaurant of the same management group. So I don't think it comparable that it happens in your industry.[/quote]

In my industry, my employer donates my time to nonprofits.  So, I spend a day or a series of days working for another organization, and I still am paid for those hours by my job.  It's not an internal move, it's a gift from one organization to another.  This situation would be similar.  It might or might not be the right choice, but it's slavery, as a PP implied.

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BUT, this sounds like a unique situation where your family member has basically taken to employing this person for life, paying their health insurance, providing them a car (I would guess although have no idea that they also have helped out in times of need like a sick relative or given generously when someone got married). This type of relationship is still employee / employer but very different. The nanny.may be very bored and not enjoy the lack of stimuluation after having worked with the family for son long and so might be happy to help out. Nanny should see herself as extension of the family and this helps family out, so she is happy to do it. [/quote]

Yes, she is part of the family, and yes I imagine that she'll have a job for as long as she wants it, and that there are probably plans for retirement when that comes, although that's pretty far down the road.  Some of it is that she makes their lives very easy, and some of it is that she provided excellent care for their child and they're grateful, and some of it is that they care about her.

I think she loves the family, so she isn't looking to leave, but I also think she enjoys her job more when her charge is at home, and misses the days when she was younger.  [/quote]

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