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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thats not reasonable to expect a person to be on call week to week with no consistency or stability at your will. [/quote] That’s pretty much what an au pair is. They have zero living expenses (we gave housing, car, gas, car insurance, health insurance, educational stipend) and get paid a small weekly salary. They need 1.5 consecutive days off per weekend and one full weekend a month. They can’t work more than 40 hours. In reality, many work a lot less (ours averaged 22 hours/wk) but the pay is the same for up to 40 hours. Their visa doesn’t permit additional work but many break that and work for cash outside of their hours. I posted about wanting to put our au pair in an apt next to us (owned by us) and it wasn’t allowed. Our au pair would have loved it and wanted it. It ended up being a moot point bc the au pair was so incompetent we fired her. [/quote]
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