Babysitter notice

[Fressia123]

I've used a babysitter regularly for the past few months to help me looking after my 14mo while WFH. She hasn't been great and at times she's been more of a hassle (she'll let the baby play next to me while I'm trying to work). She didn't have set hours and would move them around at both mine and her convenience. Obviously lo contract. My DP and one friend think no notice isn't great but still within reason as there's no contract and she's a babysitter. Other friends are telling me I have to pay her at least two weeks.

You can’t retrospectively decide to give her zero notice because you’ve decided she didn’t do her job adequately op. If you thought this all along but never discussed it with her and continued to book her, that’s on you and has no bearing on the legal or moral question of if she should be given proper notice or not.

^^This.

You basically invited a stranger into your home to look after your son without any checks and are now complaining after the fact because you are now sending your son to nursery and it makes you feel better to find fault with what the 'babysitter' did wrong so you don't have to give them adequate notice.

It's pretty shite really

@Fressia123

She was something in between. She wouldn't change his nappy. She wouldn't fix him his food. Sometimes she's give him a bath. But she was on her phone 80% of the time.

Its a good job he's going to nursery

Why did you put up with that?

As you say you advertised for it, it sounds more formal and I’d pay her notice. At this point I think the standard of her work isn’t really the issue - that needed to be dealt with at the time.

@Nanny0gg there were no places in nursery until this year. At times I thought it was okish bit I definitely had to control myself to not lose my temper. I still thought she was better than nothing.

[quote Fressia123]@Nanny0gg there were no places in nursery until this year. At times I thought it was okish bit I definitely had to control myself to not lose my temper. I still thought she was better than nothing.[/quote]
But that's not how you manage people!

You set out the tasks you want, she agrees to them before taking the job. Then you enforce them once employed. Request, warning, written warning, dismissal. Or if it's that casual, one chance and then gone.

No need to lose your temper!