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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the one who lives next door to the house that's always rented to World Bank people.

I don't know if this would be kosher to do, but I would let any potential tenant know that, if they employ a household employee, then they must pay them a minimum wage and give them certain rights.

In my experience, a lot of the World Bank personnel from other countries have lived all over the world, and in a lot of developing countries, you can hire multiple servants for a very low price.  So the World Bank personnel are accustomed to living a high standard of life, with cooking, cleaning, childcare, and shopping all done for them, even though their salaries are not super high.

So when they come to the US, they mistakenly assume that they can hire a lot of household help at a very cheap price.[/quote]

[b]Bullshit![/quote][/b]

OK, what do you disagree with?  I wrote that post in 2019 (as I recognize what I said, because it's true).  I have seen this personally many times.  I hope it's no longer the case, but in my personal experience, many people who have lived elsewhere in the world (outside of Europe) are accustomed to employing household help at very low wages, and therefore are surprised that you must pay a higher wage in the US to household help.  So either they go without household help in the US (and complain about it), or employ household help but underpay them.[/quote]

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