Childminder charging holiday pay for days my child would not have been there

[Eunhae]

Hi team,
First time posting. My 14 month old goes to a childminder 3 days per week and these three days are in the contracted hours.
My childminder took three weeks off and went on holiday and has billed me for the full five days for each of the three weeks - 6 days more than I would have paid for, and received, had she not been on holiday.
This does not seem reasonable to me. Has anyone had similar? What would you expect? To pay for your contracted hours at full prices but not additional days/hours your child never attends?
Many thanks in advance, stress I could really go without being a single mum recently returned to work..

Depends what your contract says tbh, have you checked it? It seems like that would be a really unusual provision to have in a contract - to pay for more days than you are contracted to - far more likely to be a mistake.

Seems very unfair for you to pay for days she's not available.

It’ll depend on the contract with her. Mine are way past CM stage now. But I had one who didn’t charge for her holidays but did for mine. I had another who did charge for holidays.

Just read properly sorry - yes sounds not charging you 5 day weeks

It just sounds like an admin error.

I expect this might have been sorted some time ago now!

Why do you keep replying to very old messages that will have been resolved by now?

Why do you care?

Because you're bumping it up and making other posters think it's new. Isn't that obvious?

It must be an admin error.

Oh for goodness sake!

If it was ever resolved, it's a pity OP never returned to update the thread with the outcome.

Because you are the one who bumped a thread that is over a year old.

Are you a moderator? Did I miss an important piece of information about your role on Mumsnet? Or are you just some random Mumsnet vigilante?

Depends what your contract says tbh, have you checked it?

I think in over a year, she probably has.

And I’ve no idea why you’re being so rude to people.

I respond in kind.

Someone wrote this to you ”Why do you keep replying to very old messages that will have been resolved by now?”

and you responded ”why do you care”.

It’s just an unnecessarily rude response.

I think in over a year, she probably has.
Then why hasn't she reported back on the outcome?

No one would know why she hasn't reported back on the outcome. Perhaps she didn't feel the need. 🤷