Hi. We have a great nanny with us in her first year as our employ. We are London based. She gets 20 days holiday and the usual bank holidays. She has take 16 days so far, and had pre booked the 28/29/30 Dec, to return to work on the 3rd. On the 3rd she was to travel with us to Dorset to work the rest of that week with us in our holiday home.
She has just told me that she has booked the return coach trip from her new year break as an overnight 12-hour bus, arriving into London at 6.30am on the 3rd, and so she doesn't think she'll be able to work on that day. Annoying at the short notice, but not a disaster. However, we are planning on travelling as a group from London to Dorset on the 3rd, so if she doesn't work this day, we would now be leaving without her. Do I say tough, you didn't book the 3rd so you have to work (and would she really be in a fit state to look after 2 kids anyway?) or do I say she can have the 3rd if she wants it, but she has to get herself to our place in Dorset by 10am on the 4th at her own expense? Or maybe a compromise is that we leave for Dorset at 2pm and she gets to go home for a couple of hours to sleep, change etc, and takes it as a half-day?
What seems most fair on everyone?
(BTW have also agreed a trade with her that she gets an extra days' holiday as recompense for the inconvenience of working away from home for 4 days, so that's covered)