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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our nanny has been with us for 6 months and she just put in her two weeks notice. It is an amicable split, but we will be left in a bit of a bind until we find someone else. When she started, our verbal agreement was that she would get two weeks vacation (one that we choose and one that she chooses). We've already used our week. She just asked me if she will be paid out vacation for her week. I told her I needed to talk to my husband about it. I hadn't planned on it. Do you think we "owe" her that vacation? If she'd been here a full year, it would be a different story, but we also never told her that her vacation time was contingent on a certain length of time with us. [/quote]

Did you state that it gets accrued? If not, then it's expected as a bulk sum at the start of employment and should be paid out. It's common to have vacation and sick time in bulk, it's often seen as about 50/50 bulk versus accrued if polling nannies. I've personally never had mine accrue. As the one week of vacation used was also your choice, I'd pay it out.

Most nannies do guaranteed hours which means that you pay them their regular pay for anytime that you don't need them. Normally PTO is all of the nanny's choice and GH would cover her pay for your scheduled vacations. So in a standard contract, you would be looking at her still having 2 weeks of paid vacation time left, and in bulk if it being accrued wasn't mentioned. If it was mentioned as accrued, then normally she'd still be owed 1 week. Vacation time should ALWAYS be paid out.

This also goes to show why you should also always have a written contract that specifies every single detail/potential issue. Please never bring up "how much of a bind" her quitting puts you in. You could have specified a longer notice period (4 weeks is common), you should always have backup care/a backup plan, and if you were the one to fire her, SHE would be in just as much of a bind (except it would be a financial issue for her with not having money for rent etc). None of that should be put on your nanny.[/quote]

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