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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You hired her and I assume failed to question her about her past sickness frequency so yes I agree with you, it would be a pretty horrible thing to do to let her go over things she can't control. You are stuck with her so suck it up.[/quote]

What!?!  You are not entitled to retain a job simply because you were hired. Who told you that?  Does your mommy still it your meat for you? [/quote]

Because, were women and we need to stick together. If she is doing her job right otherwise, the you can't fire her for being sick, it's illegal. Would you fire her for having too many pregnancies? Do what's right.[/quote]

OP said: "And if she's not sick, there's some other reason she's not here."

Given that she's 1. using tons of sick leave, 2. calling off for other reasons and 3. can't bother to doublecheck vacation dates and then expected the family to cover her vacation last minute, yes, OP is quite within her rights to fire for cause.  If the unemployment office has any questions (and if she files and says she was fired for using sick leave, they will), all OP will have to do is provide whatever proof in the form of texts, emails, notes or letters that prove that the nanny was taking other days last minute when she wasn't sick and show proof of what happened with the vacation.  If she were using contracted sick leave early in the year, but hadn't gone over the contracted amount and was fired solely for being sick too much, OP would have issues, but that's not the case.[/quote]

Oh and yeah, no, we don't need to stick together when someone isn't upholding their portion of an agreement.  I'm not going to put up with an MB who is consistently late by over an hour and doesn't pay me for that time, nor am I going to put up with an MB who doesn't want to pay me for 1+ days per week because she no longer needs me, but she isn't telling me that I have the day off until I'm ready to start work for the day.  It goes both ways.[/quote]
Exactly.[/quote]

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