If you have a nanny and take a vacation

[nabum]

Do you pay your nanny for the time that you're away?

[Deleted]

Yes, we have agreed to pay ours for the weeks that she doesn't work.

I figured she'd be more likely to be serious about the job this way. I've had people flake on me before.

[hannamaren]

We plan to pay her for our vacation and 2 weeks for her. We hope she will take some time while we are off.

[takeonyou]

Typically nannies are paid when the family is on vacation. You can pay extra for housesitting, pets, plants, etc.

[liveintheville]

Yep. And he gets paid holidays off, such as monday.

[egishere]

Yes. We haven't taken a vacay yet but plan to pay her over Xmas when we are off for the week. We pay holidays too.

[nabum]

We pay holidays.

Re: vacation - that's what I thought.

We're going away in a couple of weeks and I know she doesn't expect to be paid, but I want to make sure that we're on track by planning to pay her.

[cvillern]

We had her housesit and just paid her regular wages for that time. Next year I plan on taking her with us

[Deleted]

Yes.

You can also do it where you give her 2 weeks paid vacation and 1 of those weeks has to be a overlapping week to your vacations

[caramia17]

We pay ours when we are away. She gets 3 weeks of vacation, 2 to be taken concomitant with our vacations as well as her sick and personal days. Any vacations we take over those 10 days, she gets paid for and does not work, but if we need her to come take in the mail, water our plants, etc. it is in our contract that she will do it. We have never asked her to come by the house.

[Deleted]

Yes, of course. Our nanny gets pd 52 weeks per year. She gets 1 week of vacation at her choosing, one week at ours (which is a loose standard b/c we have a nanny share). Plus sick leave.

[anna7602]

Yes, we did when we had a nanny. I was very uncomfortable with the idea of forcing her to take her paid time off when we would be away, so we ended up paying her whenever we were on vacation and offering her paid vacation that she could take as she liked.