dh accompanying us summer vacation

our dh will be coming with us for our summer vacation. we will be paying her normal salary, but i am wondering if there are any extra fees we should be providing her, since we will be travelling on what is usually her day off, that sort of thing. as well, she might feel too shy to prepare her own food (staying with my in-laws, i am too shy to prepare my own food!)..should i still give her a food allowance money?


any advice gratefully appreciated.

What? I'd love a day off, travelling for free.

I'm taking my helper on holiday with me and my children this summer. If we travel on her day off, we'll agree another day for her to take. If you're only going on a short trip it could be on your return to HK. But if, like me, you're going away for a few weeks you may wish to give her a day off at your destination.


With regard to food, you also have to consider the price of it at the place you're visiting. We're going to the UK, so HKD 300 will no way last a month there. I've said she can just eat with the family and I'll still give her the $300 which she can use to buy food on her day off and also snacks at other times.

hi & thank you all


i appreciated your responses.


kek, i maybe did not express myself very well, the day our helper travels with us will not be a day off because she will be helping us with our children. it will be an 15 hour flight and then a connector, so it will be pretty tiring for her.


barbara, mrsm, and snow rose, i will offer her an extra day, and last year when she travelled with us we also gave her days in lieu for any public holidays and sundays because we felt she didn't have a lot of freedom to have "days off" and to spend them as she would have liked.


in regards to food i think we will play it your way snow rose, last summer we tried to give her a food allowance but she was always concerned about offending people with her cooking, or being in the kitchen too late, and i think it might be best for her to just eat with us and i will still give her a food allowance and she can do with it as she wishes. thank you for the suggestions.


thank you again.

abn

hi tc

i don't mind you asking. our dh is coming with us in a work capacity although we are giving her five days off to visit her sister. we went to the immigration department and we asked about the labor laws in kong kong on the matters and we also learned about our country's labor laws (40 hours a week, both s & s holidays) becase we didn't want to be breaking any laws.

i can see why you wouldn't be wanting to take a dh with you while staying with your in-laws, it is hardly an ideal situation. and no, she won't be doing our cooking.