Hi. I am in a bizarre dilemma. We have had what looked like a wonderful nanny for the past 2 years. The reason why the situation went sour is for Christmas, we originally booked a family ski trip in Italy. Everything was booked. On the day of our trip, our nanny fell ill, apparently due to food poisoning and remained home. A few days later, I spoke with her to see if she could come on a later flight and she named another medical condition explaining why she couldn't travel so I let her have the rest of the week off.
When we returned, I asked to see her passport so we could check if she did in fact have a valid visa for travel. Mysteriously, she didn't have her passport and had sent it away to her 'solicitor' the day we returned.
When we asked for the number of her solicitor so we could ask him to faax us the relvant pages of her passport, she didn't have the address or number and then told us she sent it instead to a friend that knew where the solictor's office was.
A week later, her friend still didn't receive her passport and her soliticor was on holiday the whole week so we don't know why it was so urgent for her to send. the only number she provided of solicitor was a mobile number and no one picks up.
it all seems very dodgy and she has a good track record with us, but now we don't know whether we were right to trust her. We are giving her one more week to get her papers in order and if she doesn't come through, we'll have to fire her. A nightmare, but any thoughts on what to do?