Contractor brought kid to our house - WWYD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not your issue. It's the responsibility of the contractor to ensure the safety of everyone brought on site and also the team lead's responsibility to ensure that his/her crew is not distracted.

If you were not in the house while they worked, would it matter to you if you knew that the contractor had brought a kid to your house the day before?

Just because you are the customer, you don't get to tell them how to do their jobs or manage their staff.

You can forbid violations of child labor laws and you can demand that all workers are covered by workers compensation insurance.

Do not let a child near a construction site. Too much liability for the homeowner.

Are you for real? Bring your child to work day is not a violation of child labor laws. Taking a child to work and showing them what is going on and letting them do some very basic child-appropriate functions is not child labor.

The child is not covered by worker's compensation nor does he need to be. If he gets injured while on the job site, his father (remember, the construction foreman/supervisor?) has personal insurance that will cover the child. The accident happened when the child was in the care of his father and his father is responsible for bringing the child onto his work site. So, their personal insurance covers this. Just like if I bring my child to the office and he gets hurt while with me, my personal insurance is covering the injury and medical treatment. Unless the child was there in an official capacity and brought on by the company holding the contract, neither the contractor, nor the customer (in this case, OP) is responsible.

The father who brought the child is responsible for the child's well-being and insurance. And there is no liability to the customer unless the customer did something that was clearly negligent. In this case, any danger to the child is his father's responsibility.

This is a problematic post. You may have written a lot of words, but your analysis is completely wrong. The short answer is that if the child is injured as a result of negligence at your house, the child would have a viable negligence claim against the home owner. Please don't play lawyer on the internet. It's dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pool broke once in winter. The pool guy had to come out on emergency call on a weekend. My mom notices his two kids sitting in his truck reading with the heater on. She invited them in to watch tv with us. It was a good lesson.

Not a good lesson for the kids.

Ok if I see your young kids bundled up in truck in below freezing weather where they will be sitting for hours while you work in freezing cold on my pool I promise will leave them there vice ask you if I can invite them in to my heated house to hang out with other kids there age.

[Anonymous]

One of our workers had his family, including 2 young kids, his wife and dog, in the car outside in this heat. We didn't even realize it until late in the afternoon. They could have come in here. I would be ok. The dog on the porch. We brought them drinks

[Anonymous]

NO way no kids. Speak up. Not cool of them to pull that at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not your issue. It's the responsibility of the contractor to ensure the safety of everyone brought on site and also the team lead's responsibility to ensure that his/her crew is not distracted.

If you were not in the house while they worked, would it matter to you if you knew that the contractor had brought a kid to your house the day before?

Just because you are the customer, you don't get to tell them how to do their jobs or manage their staff.

You can forbid violations of child labor laws and you can demand that all workers are covered by workers compensation insurance.

Do not let a child near a construction site. Too much liability for the homeowner.

Are you for real? Bring your child to work day is not a violation of child labor laws. Taking a child to work and showing them what is going on and letting them do some very basic child-appropriate functions is not child labor.

The child is not covered by worker's compensation nor does he need to be. If he gets injured while on the job site, his father (remember, the construction foreman/supervisor?) has personal insurance that will cover the child. The accident happened when the child was in the care of his father and his father is responsible for bringing the child onto his work site. So, their personal insurance covers this. Just like if I bring my child to the office and he gets hurt while with me, my personal insurance is covering the injury and medical treatment. Unless the child was there in an official capacity and brought on by the company holding the contract, neither the contractor, nor the customer (in this case, OP) is responsible.

The father who brought the child is responsible for the child's well-being and insurance. And there is no liability to the customer unless the customer did something that was clearly negligent. In this case, any danger to the child is his father's responsibility.

This is a problematic post. You may have written a lot of words, but your analysis is completely wrong. The short answer is that if the child is injured as a result of negligence at your house, the child would have a viable negligence claim against the home owner. Please don't play lawyer on the internet. It's dangerous.

Are you a lawyer? If so, thank you.
If not, can an actual lawyer weigh in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad was a contractor and I went to his job site every evening after school because my mom was a nurse working evening shift. My job was to clean up/run the shop vac/remove debris, shingles, whatever. It doesn’t seem to have done me any harm.

Relax. Working class families have many challenges you don’t.

Everyone read this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dad was a contractor and I went to his job site every evening after school because my mom was a nurse working evening shift. My job was to clean up/run the shop vac/remove debris, shingles, whatever. It doesn’t seem to have done me any harm.

Relax. Working class families have many challenges you don’t.

Everyone read this.

Almost the same situation with me, but a slightly different field. I can't imagine getting spun up about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dad was a contractor and I went to his job site every evening after school because my mom was a nurse working evening shift. My job was to clean up/run the shop vac/remove debris, shingles, whatever. It doesn’t seem to have done me any harm.

Relax. Working class families have many challenges you don’t.

Everyone read this.

And then read it again. And then pull the sticks out of your a$$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not your issue. It's the responsibility of the contractor to ensure the safety of everyone brought on site and also the team lead's responsibility to ensure that his/her crew is not distracted.

If you were not in the house while they worked, would it matter to you if you knew that the contractor had brought a kid to your house the day before?

Just because you are the customer, you don't get to tell them how to do their jobs or manage their staff.

You can forbid violations of child labor laws and you can demand that all workers are covered by workers compensation insurance.

Do not let a child near a construction site. Too much liability for the homeowner.

Are you for real? Bring your child to work day is not a violation of child labor laws. Taking a child to work and showing them what is going on and letting them do some very basic child-appropriate functions is not child labor.

The child is not covered by worker's compensation nor does he need to be. If he gets injured while on the job site, his father (remember, the construction foreman/supervisor?) has personal insurance that will cover the child. The accident happened when the child was in the care of his father and his father is responsible for bringing the child onto his work site. So, their personal insurance covers this. Just like if I bring my child to the office and he gets hurt while with me, my personal insurance is covering the injury and medical treatment. Unless the child was there in an official capacity and brought on by the company holding the contract, neither the contractor, nor the customer (in this case, OP) is responsible.

The father who brought the child is responsible for the child's well-being and insurance. And there is no liability to the customer unless the customer did something that was clearly negligent. In this case, any danger to the child is his father's responsibility.

I doubt the father’s insurance company would agree with this. I’d bet in the scenario of the kid getting injured at op’s house they would come after her.

[Anonymous]

Interesting replies. My mom was in construction management, and we spent summers at her projects. In the trailer, in half-finished warehouses, digging in the cleared land, whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our pool broke once in winter. The pool guy had to come out on emergency call on a weekend. My mom notices his two kids sitting in his truck reading with the heater on. She invited them in to watch tv with us. It was a good lesson.

+1
Contractor brought his daughter one weekend to our home. She was adorable and very polite. I think she may be used to her dad taking weekend jobs because she sat there quietly reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pool broke once in winter. The pool guy had to come out on emergency call on a weekend. My mom notices his two kids sitting in his truck reading with the heater on. She invited them in to watch tv with us. It was a good lesson.

+1
Contractor brought his daughter one weekend to our home. She was adorable and very polite. I think she may be used to her dad taking weekend jobs because she sat there quietly reading.

My electrician brought his daughter to his weekend job at our house. She was well behaved.

[Anonymous]

How about bring a sick child that is all over your house & worker gets I indignant when child was asked to go outside to avoid spreading his germs!?

[Anonymous]

Take him aside privately and let him know that you are not comfortable with this and please don't do it again.

[Anonymous]

I used to go to work with my dad a lot! Those are good memories for me. He taught me a good work ethic and how to do a lot of practical things. Children nowadays sit in front of screens and get served hand and foot and it’s really not good for them. They need to be around adults and see adults working. And they also need to pitch in and learn!