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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think the percentage of bosses who said to their nannies, "hey, if you don't stay overnight, we are not going to pay you if you don't come in tomorrow" is very slim. And you have to ask yourself, if that the kind of boss you want to work for?  [/b]
  But if I had the choice of spending the night and not having to drive out in the snow, I would have taken it.  
  Yes, we all would like for the nanny to be able to come in every day to work.  And sometimes life gets in the way of that.  But as it has been said time and again the last couple of days, this is why this stuff needs to be discussed up front when negotiating for the job and needs to be put into the contract.   And if it hasn't been discussed before, the boss needs to sit down with the nanny and get this ironed out.  Otherwise, the next time we get snow, this scenario is going to happen again.  Do I pay the nanny?  Do they need to pay me if I don't come in?

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You are right, I don't think most bosses say this. I do think that this is another slippery slope (kind of along the same lines as the asking your nanny to work on a holiday debate) where the nanny feels pressured into a situation. It is likely that the employers are just trying to be helpful, but it is also just as likely that these are the very same employers who would take issue with their nanny saying no to staying the night and then having to call in because of weather the next day (I'm imagining something along the lines of "well we OFFERED to let her stay and now she can't come in, had she accepted we wouldn't be in this situation so no PTO for you")
Asking a nanny to spend the night is just rarely a good idea (and not, like some other callous poster tried to claim, akin to having to stay late to finish a project blah blah blah) and she will most likely either feel:
-pressured to do so, lest she face the next day without pay or some other more serious consequence
-kind of creeped out and guilty for saying no
-like you really don't respect their personal life and space (I have a ton of stuff to get done after work and I am not about to put that on the back burner just to ensure that there is no way you would be in a bind the next day)[/quote]

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