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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope, what you describe is illegal even by today’s rules. The MA ruling has opened the door for those rules to change to actually compensate properly. [/quote]

That's not how this works.  The Massachusetts case applies to Massachusetts only.

Au pair compensation is complicated.  If you say that an au pair should be paid like a nanny, then they should cover their own expenses like a nanny.  This would involve buying their own phone plan, car insurance and car.  But it makes zero sense to ask an 18 year old to buy their own car when they're only going to be here for a year.  So host families typically offer these "perks" so au pairs have a good experience.  But if you pay an au pair like a nanny, but still have to offer these perks so the au pair can have a good experience, then you might as well get a nanny.  Why pay more for someone with less childcare experience and who needs ongoing support to adapt to America and who has a bunch of work restrictions and who requires you to pay significant agency fees?  Massachusetts doesnt allow you to consider unlimited access to a car in or putting the au pair on your phone plan to be part of the au pair's compensation.  If you just want to kill the program, then you can absolutely take the position that nothing other than equal pay to a nanny will do.  But if you think it's  a good program that can benefit both au pairs and families, then there needs to be a middle ground.[/quote]

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