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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s helpful. Until MA laws are enacted here therefore, do we think $50 extra a week for OP’s aupair is not misplaced then? [/quote]

OP’s AP isn’t doing the job.  She’s not playing with kids, tidying up after them or doing their laundry (kid, not adult).  No, she doesn’t need extra pay for not doing her job![/quote]

It sounds like a bad situation all around. Doesn’t sound like the OP is a good fit for a host mother. And sounds like the AP has a ton of choices in today’s market. For me, two things would be important: (1) that OP does not try to intimidate her AP as was suggested and embraced on p1 (it was very ugly, I’ll-advised, and a case like that is described in Shortchanged) and (2) that the AP knows her rights and choices in the market.

The rest could be left to the marketplace until some sort of legislation closes these loopholes and cleans up the Agencies’ act. If the marketplace works as it should, the AP will find a much better home fast, and the OP, who seems to have very little interest in the cultural aspects of the program or integrating this AP into her family, learns the hard way about the AP or the nanny market.

The tragedy of course is that there aren’t affordable childcare options and that women have been leaving the workforce in record numbers during Covid-19. But that’s not a problem that we should be solving at any group’s expense, but rather addressing the root problems of the American decline. Hopefully, from January, we’ll have a chance. Given that our (woman!) Vice President sponsored the domestic worker protection bill, I’m heartened by the direction I think this is going.[/quote]

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