new nanny and quick question re holidays-for contract

[Maisiemouse]

Hi-about to employ my first nanny and am v nervous...my quick question is about holiday. We were planning to give her 4 weeks paid hols which I think we were going to make her take when we take ours...the question tho is what happens if we take more holiday? One of my friends has suggested that she would then need to 'make up' the hours for us-ie extra babysittingbut this seems pretty mean to me. I guess if we were planning on spending a few months away each year but it's more likely to be a couple of weeks over and above the 4 weeks. Does anyone have any advice? I don't want to regret things not put in contract but also want to be fair.

re bank holidays. I used to work p/t flexi hours and the arrangment re bank holidays was as follows:

I worked 22 hrs out of the possible 37 usually monday - thursday (thats 60% approx) So for each bank holiday I got 60% paid hours.

I had to log my hours weekly, so if there was a bank holiday in the week I could log down 60% of the hours of a normal wokring day (7 1/2 hrs) = 4.5hrs
I then only had to work 17.5 hrs that week but still got paid for the full 22 hrs in my contract.

Sorry if thats a bit of an odd explanation - I can try and make it clearer when I've had more sleep.