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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The nanny is nickel and diming you on her second week.  The tell is that she sits in her car until the clock strikes 9, meaning she won't work a minute unpaid.  This won't end well.[/quote]

Being unwilling to perform unpaid labor doesn't make her a bad employee. The expectation that you're entitled to free labor makes you a bad employer. Super weird how that gets confused. You're the a$$hole in this situation. [/quote]

The nanny getting her bag and walking out the door is not unpaid labor. There have been much more extreme cases of employees having to do things to get out of work that have been upheld by the courts as not being considered paid labor- eg getting bags checked, walking a long distance in a big building to leave the premises, etc. Our nanny is like this- fine with nickel and diming us when it suits her but not the other way around. eg one day she was 30 minutes late and I didn’t say anything and planned to just pay her normal weekly wages.  She ended up staying at 15 minutes late that day because she was late getting back from an outing (that she walked to, so no traffic excuses). She asked  to be paid for those extra 15 minutes, no mentioning that being late evened out her hours. You bet I stopped giving her slack on paying her for being late [/quote]

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