AIBU Nanny Travel costs

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Hello all,

We hired a new part time nanny who does the morning and after school runs. Two of my children need a train to get to school so pay my nanny travel costs from going to take them to school in the morning and then when she is bringing them back home.

In the mornings, my nanny rides her bike and parks her bike near our closest station. She asked me that once she drops the children to school, can she use the top up travel card, to come back to the station and pick up her bike to drive home.

AIBU to say no. I don't want to pay too much travel as it is!

Of course if you don’t want to pay she can sit outside the school all day and wait for them to finish hence saving you money and accumulating herself piles while she waits.
Isn’t it sad that many with children have no common decency to those they entrust with there children.

Op if you like the Nanny and want to keep her you need to change your way of thinking - she will walk! Good nannies are always in demand.

Hilarious, sounds like you wanted nanny to put all her time and own money in for a bit of babysitting pocket money. Sorry OP but I can’t get my head round what on earth you thought was the done thing.

I would expect my boss to pay for any travel whilst I working.

OP I've never heard the like
And you say you pay her the rate. What rate are you working on?
You're having a bubble!

I wondered if Nanny lived very near the school but chose to ride her bike to go to work. In which case she would be riding the bike to OPs home then getting the train to school for drop off. If she had travelled to work on the train she wouldn't need to come back to the station to pick up her bike as she is already nearly home. Similarly if she had a car she could drive the kids to school and wouldn't need to come back again to the OPs house. If nanny doesn't live near the school it makes no sense not to pay her both ways.

This can't be serious! The poor Nanny, I hope she finds a decent employer soon. Only paying one way?! Madness!!

This must be a wind up! No one is that much of a CF or stupid to not expect to pay for both journeys

You need to pay her.

WOW

Yes you should. Look into using a season ticket. May be cheapee.

Op you should be embarrassed that such a question even entered your head!
This is not how you treat people. She is doing this travel purely because of your children- her job! Which she should be paid for. Shame that you needed to question this.

As has been said on your other thread...yes of course you should...but it depends what her contract says.
What does her contract say?

YABVVVVU

@Excited101

If I was your nanny, I wouldn’t even be asking!

If I was your nanny I definitely wouldn't have asked. And if you had brought it up as to why I was using the card for the return journeys I would have laughed in your face and quit on the spot. Noone is paid enough to be out of pocket doing their job.

If all employers paid a fair wage and expenses I suspect a lot of families wouldn't have a nanny or many businesses would collapse.

I can't even fathom why you would think this was an okay question to ask let alone do

I once had a temporary nanny job. They didn't want to pay me the half hour travel time to pick up the kids from school in the afternoon. Another family wanted to pay me £2.50 a day less than my fee.

These families were put straight and not thought of fondly..

I doubt the OP is coming back but just in case she does, whilst you are all obviously completely right, I'd just like to say its not completely unheard of to get this really wrong when its a new situation and you haven't thought it through, I once did something similar in the early days of using a childminder - I won't give the details because it was idiotic, involved a funeral and I was a dick, but I just hadn't been in that kind of dynamic before and asked her to do something that was totally unreasonable. Thank God she refused and we sorted it out but I had never "employed" someone other than a one off tradesman before and got it wrong. The OP has said she will pay her, so fine.

@SunshineCake

I once had a temporary nanny job. They didn't want to pay me the half hour travel time to pick up the kids from school in the afternoon. Another family wanted to pay me £2.50 a day less than my fee.

These families were put straight and not thought of fondly..

That is disgusting and sadly common. If not this it's get an au pair and give her nanny duties and make her work overtime while paying a pittance. She should in turn just be grateful for getting a chance to live with a family in this country and learn proper English🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️.

Nothing wrong with having help, but pay people properly FFS

Thank you Huge

I do not claim travel expenses at work. But reading this thread, it looks like I need to.

"I wondered if Nanny lived very near the school but chose to ride her bike to go to work. In which case she would be riding the bike to OPs home then getting the train to school for drop off. If she had travelled to work on the train she wouldn't need to come back to the station to pick up her bike as she is already nearly home"

Yes. She lives near school but rides her bike to work.

Most people claim travel expenses for travel that is part of their work. I pay myself to go to work and to return home, but if I have to visit another location as part of my job, I claim the cost back.
Your nanny wouldn’t be getting a train were she not taking your children to school. Therefore you pay.

Well really she could in theory collect her bike and ride home at the end of the day after the afternoon school run

I’m still perplexed by the ten hours a week thing. It sounds like more than two hours a day- unless you are just paying her from the moment she picks up the children to when she drops them at school and vice versa, and not for the time it takes her to go back to get her bike after dropping them? If she earns £28 a day gross AND was having to incur costs it’s barely worth it.

@Derbee

You tight cow! I suspect your nanny won’t last long. You sound like a pretty miserable employer

And you sound like a misogynist, so........