Please help! I've given my childminder 4 weeks notice and she mentioned to me that I have to pay her 3 weeks holiday?!

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Hello, I'm sorry if this type of stuff is already discussed.

I told today my childminder that I'm planning to terminate my contract with her and I'll give her written notice tomorrow. I mentioned 30.08.14 as my daughter's last day in the nursery. She surprised me bad by telling me that I have to pay her 3 weeks for her holiday which starts 02.08.14 - 25.08.14. Me and my family are going abroad at 01.08.14 and we'll be back on 22.08.14. This childminder is too far from our new home so we decided to move the daughter somewhere locally. I thought as I give 4 weeks written notice as it is noticed in the contract that would be ok, but the childminder doesn't think so. My contract has started 26.09.13 and it is noticed that she can get 4 weeks paid off but on the other hand I've paid 2 weeks for her holidays over Christmas time and another single day on 23.05.14 . Now she asking me for paying for another 3 weeks holiday after termination of the contract on 30.07.14. Is she eligible to get payments for extra 3 weeks?

I'll attach scanned copy of my contract.
P.S: I can obviously upload up to 3 files, so I'll upload only the pages related to the case :)

Awww, I forgot about CM holiday: 02 - 25 August 2014, we give her notice out of that time.

So her holidays are half-pay (£20 instead of £40), yes?
Sorry to seem dim, but I can't see the contract properly.

So that would give 8.67 days @ £20 = £173.33
less the deposit of £180 (at old rate)
which means she owes you £6.67 (ha - you'll be lucky!)

I hope my figures are now correct, after all the July/August confusion, meaning it's difficult to extract the right information from this thread

You do not have to pay her!!! I am a childminder so am self employed.

You can't give notice during a holiday period but you dd last day is before her holiday starts, is that right?

You have given 4 weeks notice and as long as you pay for them you don't have to pay anymore.

Holidays are not prorated when self employed.

Is it worth posting in Legal as well?

Having read through all the messages, the answer is simple. you have given 4 weeks notice, your last day is 30/7/14. you pay up to that last day. End of.
I'm a CM and if I was in the same situation, yes I'd be a little peeved that notice was given just before my holiday, but there's not much I could do about it. I certainly wouldn't be trying to get 3 weeks pay out of you!

so what did theCM say, OP?