Au Pair Class action law suit - what does this mean for host families?
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Anonymous
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/91-000-au-pairs-in-class-action-over-pay-1518021756
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-employment-wages/au-pairs-win-certification-in-massive-class-action-against-sponsor-companies-idUSL2N1PW032 Will this have any bearing on in-country au pairs? Or those folks looking for an au pair (like we are)? |
Anonymous
| I don’t know but so happy I am forever done with AP program in August!! Moving on to afterschool babysitter. |
Anonymous
| I suspect it will mean they will change their advertising. |
Anonymous
| Just another good reason to be done with this program. |
Anonymous
| This is not legal advice. But I suspect if the plaintiffs win, and you have an Au Pair that you are hosting at that time, you will instantly be required to pay her the minimum wage in your location or send her into rematch if you can’t pay that. Check your agency contract- they are very one sided so you won’t get any portion of your agency fee back. |
Anonymous
If that happens, there will be no incentive for families to participate in the program. Why would anyone pay what we can pay our neighbor's teen daughter (and we know her!) plus: have this person living in our home, eating our food, having the use of one of our car (cost of gas, insurance, etc). That's in addition of paying for schooling and agency fees. No benefit to the family. |
Anonymous
| Especially for the large number of us who do this out of flexibility (split shift) and fun (like the cultural piece), but not out of necessity (our local friends figure it out with various forms of after-care). With the few hours I really NEED an aupair, I am already way overpaying. Anyway, for those of us who sit on the fence of leaving each year, this will give us the push to exit the program. |
Anonymous
OK. But why should US law care about foreign young adults wanting to come here? I don't see this as a winning argument. |
Anonymous
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Great. Would this mean she can move out of my house then, find her own apartment, pay for her own food and bills? Then gladly I will pay her minimum wage+.
If not, I'm out. |
Anonymous
| Ha! This could be awesome! APs can find apartment, pay for their own food, utilities, education, phone, etc. I will pay 2x minimum! |
Anonymous
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Grateful in this instance that the wheels of justice don't turn very fast.
Our next AP arrives in April, pretty certain this will be our last year in the program (for our own family reasons, nothing to do with this lawsuit). I think we'll be OK. |
Anonymous
For that, you could hire a great nanny. That would be $25/hr at DC minimum wage, and $24/hr in Montgomery, Co. You can hire an excellent live-in or live-out nanny for less than that. |
Anonymous
It's true- if we needed fulltime. But as we keep saying, us moms CAN'T FIND ANYONE TO WORK OUR SPLIT SHIFTS! I advertised on care.com this fall for three months - 25-30/hr, but split shift needed (6:10-7:10 and 2-6:30). Not one taker who could do all the hours I needed. Not one. |
Anonymous
It's that one morning hour. Add some housekeeping to make it 3 hours, and you could find someone. No au pair would take that job either. Even at $25/hr, 25 hours/wk doesn't pay enough to live independently. |
Anonymous
On year 11 of hosting. Au pairs love the job. Not sure what you're talking about.... |