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Anonymous wrote:I feel bad but I can’t because it was last minute.

A year is short notice? This was made a Federal holiday a year ago.

most of these replies, including this one, are from LAST YEAR.

Anonymous wrote:No but I feel bad. Both my husband and I have the day off (long scheduled, not new), we had planned to get a bunch of errands and work around the house done.

The thing is, it's a nanny share, and I know the other family 1) has to work 2) has very stressful jobs and 3) just had to take a lot of time off for a family emergency. So it just feels like a huge imposition for them.

But I have guilt, especially because both families are white and the nanny is Black.

Wowwwwwww yeah you’ll be looking for a new nanny. You should have offered to watch the share yourself, since you’re both off. This is really big for the black community and you’re BOTH off…. Doing errands and things around the house? It’s a nanny market right now and I hope yours quits and finds a new family who will pay her what she’s worth, plus give her Juneteenth off. You really F***ed up here. Your only hope is that the share is at the other house and your nanny doesn’t know you’re BOTH off. I hope you’re a troll.

- white nanny

Anonymous wrote:No, nanny already gets 15 paid holidays a year.

So do you.

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad but I can’t because it was last minute.

You should pay her double time for making her work on a Federal holiday.

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad but I can’t because it was last minute.

A year is short notice? This was made a Federal holiday a year ago.

Nanny is white as are we and honestly I didn’t even think about it. DH is off but I’m not.

Next year, for sure, we will give her the day off.

Bumping in light of the holiday this year. Thought I would share our experience in case it’s helpful to others. We’re POC as is our nanny. We have given her the day off, albeit at the last minute once we realized we both had it off.

I feel bad about our late notice to her, but we try very hard to treat her well. She gets all the major federal holidays, save Indigenous Peoples Day and Veterans Day. DH works those day and I don’t, so I typically use that as a flex day to catch up on random life stuff and errands. We also travel a ton, so I would estimate our nanny gets 4-5 additional long weekends per year when we fly out on a Thursday or so to do something. We both also take off the last few weeks of the year for the holidays, so she gets that time too. Plus a week of her choosing. We’ve also been doing gas stipends in light of crazy inflation and of course, annual increases and an annual bonus.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here. My employers got the day off and clearly knew about it. I didn’t know until I came to work and took my charge to the park where a nanny told me about it. They acted as if nothing happened and were running errands all day. I know their routine and have been with them during the whole pandemic to know when they are working and when they are clearly not. That was so selfish knowing I deserved it as an employee and as a black woman. I was really disappointed.

Would you have been willing to take it unpaid or worked a holiday later in the year that you were planning to have off? We give off a certain number of holidays and let our nanny pick from the federal holidays. We do not get most of them off or, if we take them, they count as a vacation day against our yearly limit.

Sorry for the late response. The agreement is that I take all the federal holidays they have off. There were no excuse here. They knew but just decided not to give me the day off. They just took advantage of the fact that the holiday was given at the last minute and acted as if nothing happened.

Have you talked to them about this? You were short-changed, PP, and your employers broke their agreement with you. Please hash this out with them and be honest about your feelings. You deserve compensation for their mistake.

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Anonymous wrote:Nanny here. My employers got the day off and clearly knew about it. I didn’t know until I came to work and took my charge to the park where a nanny told me about it. They acted as if nothing happened and were running errands all day. I know their routine and have been with them during the whole pandemic to know when they are working and when they are clearly not. That was so selfish knowing I deserved it as an employee and as a black woman. I was really disappointed.

Would you have been willing to take it unpaid or worked a holiday later in the year that you were planning to have off? We give off a certain number of holidays and let our nanny pick from the federal holidays. We do not get most of them off or, if we take them, they count as a vacation day against our yearly limit.

Sorry for the late response. The agreement is that I take all the federal holidays they have off. There were no excuse here. They knew but just decided not to give me the day off. They just took advantage of the fact that the holiday was given at the last minute and acted as if nothing happened.

Anonymous wrote:No but I feel bad. Both my husband and I have the day off (long scheduled, not new), we had planned to get a bunch of errands and work around the house done.

The thing is, it's a nanny share, and I know the other family 1) has to work 2) has very stressful jobs and 3) just had to take a lot of time off for a family emergency. So it just feels like a huge imposition for them.

But I have guilt, especially because both families are white and the nanny is Black.

This is inexcusable on your part!

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here. My employers got the day off and clearly knew about it. I didn’t know until I came to work and took my charge to the park where a nanny told me about it. They acted as if nothing happened and were running errands all day. I know their routine and have been with them during the whole pandemic to know when they are working and when they are clearly not. That was so selfish knowing I deserved it as an employee and as a black woman. I was really disappointed.

Would you have been willing to take it unpaid or worked a holiday later in the year that you were planning to have off? We give off a certain number of holidays and let our nanny pick from the federal holidays. We do not get most of them off or, if we take them, they count as a vacation day against our yearly limit.

Nanny here. My employers got the day off and clearly knew about it. I didn’t know until I came to work and took my charge to the park where a nanny told me about it. They acted as if nothing happened and were running errands all day. I know their routine and have been with them during the whole pandemic to know when they are working and when they are clearly not. That was so selfish knowing I deserved it as an employee and as a black woman. I was really disappointed.

My employer found out Thursday night and offered me the day off but I knew it would totally inconvenience them due to the short notice so I offered to come in and they are giving me holiday pay.

My employer didn’t even acknowledge the holiday they told me
We have a fun day plan see you at 6

Anonymous wrote:I am an African American female. I definitely would not start looking for a new job because my employer’s could not give me the day off with less than 24 hours notice - that just seems extremely silly. There are a ton of great Juneteenth activities/ celebrations on Saturday that lots of people are going to because they do not get tomorrow off.

A nice card (you can download some neat ones from Etsy) to celebrate the day would be nice, and if you want, a gift card to a place to help me celebrate (there is a new African American owned bookstore in Downtown Silver Spring right next to ColdStone - Loyalty books, that’s really neat.

Yep - we are not giving our nanny off but we zoomed around town yesterday and got our nanny a gift card to a black-owned restaurant.