Hi!
First post & looking for some advice RE our part time nanny.
Our nanny has been with us for nearly 6 months. She is contracted to work 2 days per week & in her contract has statutory annual leave (11.2 days per year including bank holidays).
She has taken/requested 6 days and we asked her to take 2 days of annual leave when we are on holiday.
She responded by saying she’ll agree to take those 2 days as a favour to us (I was slightly miffed by this, as I have read that many nannies split their leave choices 50:50 with the employer…)
And she was very annoyed and incredulous that bank holidays are included as part of her annual leave allowance. She has basically asked for us to pay her on these days, but she won’t be showing up to work.
She has previously kicked off at us for expecting her to work when she doesn’t think she is “needed” - e.g. if we are available during the day, she presumes that she doesn’t need to come to work, but expects to be paid. On another occasion we asked her to cook for our baby while a family member took him out, and she was outraged that we asked this from her.
She is very good with our son, and he seems happy. This is the most important thing to us, but we are at a bit of a loss over what to do RE the bank holidays, as we really can’t afford to keep paying her for days that she doesn’t work… I should mention we gave her 3 weeks of paid leave over Christmas because we were away on annual leave and she refused to take any of this out of her own annual leave…
What would you do in this situation?