"Domestic Workers Rights in the United States"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. While we've always had food available because we don't eat out a lot, there is no way that asking a live out nanny to bring her lunch is a human rights violation. This is just plain offensive that you draw this correlation.

A live in who is brought over from another country, never allowed to leave the house, has her passport taken away and is basically locked in is a serious human rights violation. An entitled, stupid, bratty live out American nanny can bring her lunch.

I am so glad I never met a MB like this one. She's a disgusting disgrace, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nannies have access to food if they bring their lunch.

The average nanny is likely working ten hours a day in your house. Many of them work twelve hours a day, plus travel time for live-outs. One might easily imagine they consume all of their meals while at work, considering their very long hours in your house. Logic would have it that they would need most of your refrigerator space, and you should be delegated a small part of it for when you might eat at home once a day, if that.

And you thought the nanny should learn to live on a cold sandwich all day? This, not to mention that her work is significantly more physically demanding than your desk job.


Domestic workers have every right to be provided food at fulltime jobs that have no option for a break to go out for a meal.

For houses where the nanny is "required" to bring in any food she might want to eat, is it a money issue for the families, or an attitude problem?

[Anonymous]

Neither. I'm not provided food at my job. My nanny has always brought her lunch. Obviously, if she forgot, she can eat whatever we have on hand, but we don't provide it regularly and she doesn't expect it. She is welcome to any shelf space and fridge space to safely store anything she wishes to bring.

Before you ask, no, I'm not allowed to leave for lunch and I work a 10+ hour shift. This is common in my industry and we all bring our lunches and store extra food in an office kitchen.

An employer who chooses not to provide free meals for their employees is not at all engaging in a human rights violation. That's just silly.

Nannies, pick your perks and negotiate for them in your contract. Stop acting like spoiled children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neither. I'm not provided food at my job. My nanny has always brought her lunch. Obviously, if she forgot, she can eat whatever we have on hand, but we don't provide it regularly and she doesn't expect it. She is welcome to any shelf space and fridge space to safely store anything she wishes to bring.

Before you ask, no, I'm not allowed to leave for lunch and I work a 10+ hour shift. This is common in my industry and we all bring our lunches and store extra food in an office kitchen.

An employer who chooses not to provide free meals for their employees is not at all engaging in a human rights violation. That's just silly.

Nannies, pick your perks and negotiate for them in your contract. Stop acting like spoiled children.

If you honestly do work 10 hours a day 5 days a week, you must bring more than a sandwich everyday to maintain your weight. What field are you in? Even hospital workers have access to onsite cafeterias.

[Anonymous]

I truly don't understand this thread - excuse me if I'm being dense. Our nanny brings her breakfast and lunch every day, just like I bring meals to my job. She can eat while our baby naps (9-11, 2-4), or she can eat while the baby plays around on the floor with his toys. It's a human rights violation to not provide her food or scheduled breaks? I'm so confused.

[Anonymous]

WTH? My kids go to camp now and they provide no food on-site. The kids, counselors, and staff all GASP...bring food in these prison style boxes referred to as a lunch box. It gets worse they bring water bottles AND snacks!! All of them. We try to pretend it isn't a labor camp by having decorated boxes with unicorns and dinosaurs but its quite awful that there is no one at camp taking everyone's grocery orders for the entire week and preparing several meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Neither. I'm not provided food at my job. My nanny has always brought her lunch. Obviously, if she forgot, she can eat whatever we have on hand, but we don't provide it regularly and she doesn't expect it. She is welcome to any shelf space and fridge space to safely store anything she wishes to bring.

Before you ask, no, I'm not allowed to leave for lunch and I work a 10+ hour shift. This is common in my industry and we all bring our lunches and store extra food in an office kitchen.

An employer who chooses not to provide free meals for their employees is not at all engaging in a human rights violation. That's just silly.

Nannies, pick your perks and negotiate for them in your contract. Stop acting like spoiled children.

If you honestly do work 10 hours a day 5 days a week, you must bring more than a sandwich everyday to maintain your weight. What field are you in? Even hospital workers have access to onsite cafeterias.

Of course I bring more than a sandwich every day. That's the point. I work long shifts, bring the food I think I'll need and store it on site. Professional nannies do the same.

[Anonymous]

Of course nannies can bring in food if they want, but I never heard of anyone requiring her to eat only her own food. That's so peculiar if you're a nanny in a private residence, unless the family has financial problems and they need to cut every penny.

[Anonymous]

If I was taking a new job with an infant or a toddler I wouldn't expect my employer to have sandwich fix ins, fruit, frozen meals or whatever stocked up just for me. If they regularly have those things on hand and offer them, this is nice but I wouldn't expect it and certainly wouldn't need it. I'm not a teenager. As an adult, I am perfectly capable of packing my own lunch in the morning. I don't see chips and soda as a right of employment. I would much rather focus on negotiating a professional compensation package with good pay, PTO, and guaranteed hours than act like a teenager pissed off that someone isn't grocery shopping for me.

[Anonymous]

re: not eating a sandwich every day....there's this thing called "leftovers from your own dinner"...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I was taking a new job with an infant or a toddler I wouldn't expect my employer to have sandwich fix ins, fruit, frozen meals or whatever stocked up just for me. If they regularly have those things on hand and offer them, this is nice but I wouldn't expect it and certainly wouldn't need it. I'm not a teenager. As an adult, I am perfectly capable of packing my own lunch in the morning. I don't see chips and soda as a right of employment. I would much rather focus on negotiating a professional compensation package with good pay, PTO, and guaranteed hours than act like a teenager pissed off that someone isn't grocery shopping for me.

You're not a nanny. Lol. Nice try though.

[Anonymous]

I'm with the PP - I truly don't get this thread and what the big issue is. I'm a Federal employee and I work 9-10 hour days every day. I pack a big lunchbox with leftovers and snacks. I keep extra snacks and drinks in the my desk. I never buy anything at work and I am perfectly fed throughout my day. It's not that difficult. Yes, I realize that I have the option of going out to get something, and nannies can swing by a grocery store or other faster food place and grab something on their way home from Gymboree or whatever too. Most MBs also would be happy to provide lunch for a nanny who forgot to pack something for the day too.

I don't get what the OP would feel satisfied with here. Do you think MBs should allow free access to all their own food? Is that enough? Or should they pick up food the nanny wants and make sure to stock it in the house? Or does a "hot meal" need to be provided daily? What happens if the MB doesn't have a chance that night to pick up the grocery list for her nanny and doesn't have exactly what the nanny wants to eat the next day?

Sorry for taking it a bit far, but I just really don't understand why nannies can't be adults about making sure they have adequate nutrition for the day just like all the rest of us do?

An I know, OP, you'll say that a nanny can't just leave her job any time she gets hungry and go buy something. Most of the other jobs can't just randomly leave their jobs at any time either, but yes, I do see that a nanny would have less access to food if were, say, home with an infant all day, but most of us MBs have said we have happily extended a please help yourself to a snack.

Maybe OP is a troll trying to wind us all up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Neither. I'm not provided food at my job. My nanny has always brought her lunch. Obviously, if she forgot, she can eat whatever we have on hand, but we don't provide it regularly and she doesn't expect it. She is welcome to any shelf space and fridge space to safely store anything she wishes to bring.

Before you ask, no, I'm not allowed to leave for lunch and I work a 10+ hour shift. This is common in my industry and we all bring our lunches and store extra food in an office kitchen.

An employer who chooses not to provide free meals for their employees is not at all engaging in a human rights violation. That's just silly.

Nannies, pick your perks and negotiate for them in your contract. Stop acting like spoiled children.

If you honestly do work 10 hours a day 5 days a week, you must bring more than a sandwich everyday to maintain your weight. What field are you in? Even hospital workers have access to onsite cafeterias.

Of course I bring more than a sandwich every day. That's the point. I work long shifts, bring the food I think I'll need and store it on site. Professional nannies do the same.

You still haven't told us what industry you're in that doesn't allow you to get yourself any food for 50 hours a week. Even hospital workers have access to cafeterias.

[Anonymous]

Why would I tell you what industry I'm in, PP? It has no bearing on the topic at hand.

You've failed to make the case that feeding nannies is a human rights issue. It's a perk, pure and simple.

You can stop your trolling, now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would I tell you what industry I'm in, PP? It has no bearing on the topic at hand.

You've failed to make the case that feeding nannies is a human rights issue. It's a perk, pure and simple.

You can stop your trolling, now.

There is no workplace in the US where you can legally forbid people from getting food during their FT job. You can't even think up such a job, let alone your pretense that you have such a job.