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[quote=Anonymous]We are telling you that the industry standard is to pay for hours you don’t use.  So if you tell her in December that you will be out of town the first week of August, you would still pay for the first week of August.

You are asking if there is a way to provide enough notice that you don’t need to pay.  The answer is that it depends on whether your nanny feels it serves her.  I would not be thrilled to have 4 weeks unpaid leave over the summer, no matter how early in the year I found out.  I would quit my job and find a different one.  But maybe someone with different life circumstances would think it was fun to have that time off.  You’d have to talk to her.

So your options are:
1) Pay her for unused hours per the industry standard—pros you aren’t annoying the nanny, con you have to pay her.

2) try to negotiate an amount of notice that makes her not mind unpaid time off—Pro she might say yes, con she might say no.

3) Offer whatever notice you like but make it clear in advance that you aren’t paying for unused hours—pro you don’t have to pay, con she might quit with little notice if she finds a consistent job.[/quote]

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