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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's unreasonable to expect families to pay for their nanny's maternity leave, if only because I think it will just lead to people hiring only older nannies. I also don't think it's hypocritical to be arguing for society wide TAX-PAYER sponsored maternity leave and not wanting to pay your nanny's maternity leave out of your own pocket.

However.... for those of you that hire nannies, and those nannies either don't get any paid maternity leave, or their salary isn't high enough to save for maternity leave.... don't you feel kind of icky that your lifestyle depends on such poorly paid labor?

I guess if I had to be the devil's advocate and answer that, you could still say "no I don't feel bad because if you're going to be a nanny, then you shouldn't expect to have children." I think that is a valid thing to say.

Just an interesting thing to think about.[/quote]

We gave our nanny paid leave, actually more than I earned at the job I had when I had children.  We also paid her $30/hour for 40 hours per week and $45/hour for overtime, which was at least 10 hours a week, guaranteed.  She decided not to save any of her leave during the five years she was with us and is now with a new family and likely considering starting a family soon.  Had she not taken all her leave with us, we would have paid her out that leave (we made that clear in the contract from the get go).  She also got an annual bonus of around $5,000.  So no, I don't feel like I would also need to pay her for three months of maternity leave.  We gave her leave that she could have accrued and we paid her well, not to mention bonuses.  If she chose not to save any of her salary or bonus money then I don't really think it was beyond us at that point to pay for additional leave.  She also received health insurance, monthly contributions to an IRA, a cell phone stipend, and paid mileage and food.[/quote]

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