We have a part time nanny (she works 10-5, 4 days a week) and recently almost every week she has taken time off for non-urgent medical appointments for herself or her children, for example vaccinations for her two young children. This means that my husband or I need to juggle meetings or find alternative childcare at short notice. There have also been several times in recent weeks when one of her children has been sick (nothing serious, just the usual colds/coughs) and she has wanted to take them to the doctor, but it is never her husband who attends these appointments, always her.
AIBU in thinking non urgent appointments could be scheduled on her non working hours or days, and/or could be shared with her husband so it’s not always my husband and I having to cover the absences? I understand why her husband prefers not to take the time off as he is a personal trainer and doesn’t get paid for the hours he isn’t working, but it’s frustrating that we always have to be the ones to juggle.
Note that we live in a country where medical care is primarily private, not NHS, so there is a lot of flexibility in making medical appointments.