I know this sounds like a total first world problem but please bear with me.
I have a nanny that looks after my three children two days a week before and after school (all day in the hols). I pay her a good rate and overtime.
She started off well but now I feel like she is doing the bare minimum that she can get away with, when I come in at night the kids are glued to the xbox and she just says they didn't want to do their homework. The kids never tidy their rooms, make their beds etc. when she is here.
Problem is that four months after starting with me she announced she was three months pregnant. I'm a bit narked at this but I can't do anything but suck it up.
Here is the issue, I don't think she is doing a great job with the kids and if she wasn't pregnant then I could feel that I could address it with her. She is supposed to start at x time and always turns up two or three mins late which doesn't seem like a lot but I literally dash out of the car and sprint for a train.
She has now asked me twice for time off for pregnancy appointments, which legally she is allowed to have. First of all she has three other days a week that she could go for these appointments and it means I have to pay someone else to look after the children.
I don't know how to handle it for the best. I'm a single mum so its not like on the occasions when she is off I can leave work early or get a partner to look after the kids.
Where do I stand legally? As I said I know its a first world problem but having the children looked after this way actually worked out cheaper for me. And my daughter with SEN can cope with someone in the house but not going to different houses all the time as we did when I had a childminder