Find a new position. It seems you don’t want to find a temp job. The kids are older and have out grown you. If the family is exceptionally a good employer than consider staying and find a temp job.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seven weeks is a long time. I think your options here are:

1. Get a temporary gig for the summer and go back to them in the fall.

2. Start looking for a new family.

Were you expecting to be paid for two months while not working? They *definitely* should have raised this with you directly and let you know that they can't employ you for the summer, but it is equally weird to expect to be paid for that long when the children are gone.

Op here
No I didnt expect to be paid for no work but I think you misred my post. The older ones are here during summer, they will be gone in the fall. So this “we don’t need you” during summer is kind of from left field. I expected to have my hours possibly reduced but still work and possibly having 2 or 3 weeks off because I know they will all travel as a family and go away at some point on vacation. I didn't anticipate not working at all. They paid me thru 10 weeks of covid last year so yeah I find this odd that she wants to furlough me and still expect me to be available in the fall. Im weighing my options

If the older kids are college age, moving away and the youngest is 12 they really don't need you and its time to find a new job. She should pay you through covid as you could work and she choose not to have your come. Same as now. She should pay you during their vacations as well if this is a full time job. A 12 year old really only needs a driver before/after school.

12yo may need a tutor, but unless OP's boss is gone overnight frequently, I'm not sure why a 12yo still has a nanny.

The 2 older kids may be going to boarding school or moving in with the other parent in the fall. Regardless, they are older than 12yo and don't need a nanny.

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Anonymous wrote:Seven weeks is a long time. I think your options here are:

1. Get a temporary gig for the summer and go back to them in the fall.

2. Start looking for a new family.

Were you expecting to be paid for two months while not working? They *definitely* should have raised this with you directly and let you know that they can't employ you for the summer, but it is equally weird to expect to be paid for that long when the children are gone.

Op here
No I didnt expect to be paid for no work but I think you misred my post. The older ones are here during summer, they will be gone in the fall. So this “we don’t need you” during summer is kind of from left field. I expected to have my hours possibly reduced but still work and possibly having 2 or 3 weeks off because I know they will all travel as a family and go away at some point on vacation. I didn't anticipate not working at all. They paid me thru 10 weeks of covid last year so yeah I find this odd that she wants to furlough me and still expect me to be available in the fall. Im weighing my options

If the older kids are college age, moving away and the youngest is 12 they really don't need you and its time to find a new job. She should pay you through covid as you could work and she choose not to have your come. Same as now. She should pay you during their vacations as well if this is a full time job. A 12 year old really only needs a driver before/after school.

They should have told you sooner. They knew they signed up the child for sleepaway camp. Time to find a new job. Hopefully they paid taxes and unemployment and worst case you file for unemployment while you look for a new job. I'd be up front and tell them that they need to pay you for the 7 weeks if they want you to return in the fall or you'll need to find another full time job. Realistically, youngest is 12 and they will not need you much longer.

Yes, politely decline. Start looking for a new position now.

After five years, I’m sure you love the kids and they love you so keep it extremely civil so you can still see them.

I worked for a wonderful family who needed to change my hours and it simply wasn’t possible for me. My employer and I both cried and hugged and we’re still incredibly close over five years later. I still see the kids all the time.

Sometimes situations call for a change. This sounds like one of those times.

And in your next job, OP, NEVER accept anything but full guaranteed hours 52 weeks a year. Have it in your contract. Play or pay.

That's right. I left a Job like that. It didn't work for me working for a teacher. They didn't need me all summer and obviously I didn't get paid. It was very hard for me to survive working almost the 3 months looking for hours here and there. I moved on. Now working Full time with a nice family where I get paid 52 weeks every single year.

As a nanny I would advice.. tell them that you appreciate the option that they gave you but it's not going to work for you. It would not be fair let you on the air without to be paid all summer and stress for you looking for a temporary job and then they expect you and be available for them in the fall. It's time to part ways. Start looking for another family with a F/T job. Almost same problem happens where you work for Teachers. Most them don't want to pay you for all summer while they are vacations. Even you want to work. They just don't need you. But it's up every single nanny take a Job like that. In my case; I would never take it.

Honestly I would politely decline, keep a good relationship with them and the kids, but tell her that a temporary position wouldn’t be comfortable for you and you can’t afford to go seven weeks without pay.

Start looking for a new position.

Anonymous wrote:Seven weeks is a long time. I think your options here are:

1. Get a temporary gig for the summer and go back to them in the fall.

2. Start looking for a new family.

Were you expecting to be paid for two months while not working? They *definitely* should have raised this with you directly and let you know that they can't employ you for the summer, but it is equally weird to expect to be paid for that long when the children are gone.

Op here
No I didnt expect to be paid for no work but I think you misred my post. The older ones are here during summer, they will be gone in the fall. So this “we don’t need you” during summer is kind of from left field. I expected to have my hours possibly reduced but still work and possibly having 2 or 3 weeks off because I know they will all travel as a family and go away at some point on vacation. I didn't anticipate not working at all. They paid me thru 10 weeks of covid last year so yeah I find this odd that she wants to furlough me and still expect me to be available in the fall. Im weighing my options

I would find a new job and give notice after final check had cleared. What a bitch.

Seven weeks is a long time. I think your options here are:

1. Get a temporary gig for the summer and go back to them in the fall.

2. Start looking for a new family.

Were you expecting to be paid for two months while not working? They *definitely* should have raised this with you directly and let you know that they can't employ you for the summer, but it is equally weird to expect to be paid for that long when the children are gone.

First, what does your contract say? Mine specifically says that I won't have any unpaid weeks.

Second, what does your contract say for guaranteed hours and vacation? Mine says that I will be paid my guaranteed hours 52 weeks per year, whether I'm working or not. Then, the section on vacation states that I need to give 2 months or more notice to use my vacation weeks, but that I will be paid my full rate during weeks that the family does not need me. It does NOT say that it is limited to when they take their vacation.

My contract does not allow any wiggle room on this issue. Either I'm employed by a family and they pay me for working and/or being available to them, or they understand that if they furlough me (which is what you MB is trying to do), I won't be available when they want me back.

Time to move on. This a red flag.

I mean it seems that the options are

1. Find a temporary summer gig (which may not be hard given camp limitations this year)
2. Just get let go.

Nannies, gimme your 2 cents. I have been with this family for over 5 years. This is an ever evolving position......2 of the kids will be gone this Fall and the last child remaining is a 12 year old who goes to sleep away camp during summer for 7 weeks.
My boss non Chalantly told me today that nothing will change in the fall and they still want me to work for at least another year but she indicated they won’t need me during summer and asked if I needed help finding a temporary position. I was caught off guard and said “no I don’t think I want to do that” and we didn’t have time to discuss any further, and now I can’t sleep.
I intend to speak to her tomorrow because I don’t know how many weeks she is planning on not having me work (I could stretch and do 3 weeks unpaid. But any more than that I financially can’t) but this is not sitting right with me at all.....