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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our letter of agreement, she put this in writing:
We agree to a minimum of two weeks notice when either party wishes to terminate. If nanny gives parents more advanced notice, parents assure nanny continued employment, until said termination date.

If you had/have a wise MB, please share what she did/does.

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WHY don't parents do this?[/quote]

Wrong question.  The question is how many do this?

Some do.  We do.  Our language in the contract with our nanny calls for a one month notice period from either side, barring termination for misconduct.[/quote]
So if you got your nanny's one month notice, and in only one week, you found the new nanny of your dreams, but she needs to start a job immediately, you do what?[/quote]

We pay our departing nanny for the full one month period, whether or not we ask her to serve out that full term.  We thank her for giving us so much notice and do not penalize her for honoring the terms of our contract.

Of course, your proposed scenario isn't realistic.  It takes longer than a week to find the right person and it takes 3 weeks to search, interview, and select someone decent in my experience.  And any candidate that was so desperate to start a position within less than a week of hearing about it is unlikely to be someone we would think was ideal.  It would be far more likely that we'd spend a week setting up the search, the second week following up w/ candidates and having interviews, and the third week arranging some trial (paid) time w/ our kids.  If we got really lucky we might even have some overlap so our current nanny could train her replacement.  Or maybe we'd end up paying our current nanny for a handful of days she doesn't actually work because we're ready to start the new person.

Some of us really are decent, ethical employers you know.[/quote]

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