Minimum Wage Query

[Anonymous]

And underpaying the nanny and her getting section 8 mean that we are ALL forced into subsidizing your “sister’s” childcare. Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

How much do you hate your children to not care to pay the person actually raising them a basic, livable wage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Sister employs a Nanny who lives in Section 8 housing.

Both the Nanny as well as my Sister hate filling out all the forms/faxes that are required 2x/annually so they prefer to simplify things by only dealing with cash.
Recently the Nanny has been asking my Sister for a raise…..she wants to be paid her state’s minimum wage.

I told my Sister since she is working under the table then the minimum wage requirement does not apply.

What say you?

Your sister is committing tax fraud and housing fraud and is asking if this means it's OK for her to also pay below minimum? None of those things is OK, and doing one does not make the other less criminal.

[Anonymous]

You're obligated to file taxes even if you get paid cash. The nanny can file taxes at any time. Along with a report of unpaid wages. Treble damages where I live.

She's supposed to be paying 30% of her income for rent but there are deductions and we don't know what she actually pays. It could be the correct amount because some places have a minimum payment no matter how low your income is & to be making less than minimum wage is going to be a pitiful amount.

Your sister better watch out. At the least she should pay the state minimum wage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And underpaying the nanny and her getting section 8 mean that we are ALL forced into subsidizing your “sister’s” childcare. Disgusting.

As a taxpayer it does annoy me that money is taken out of my biweekly paychecks to fund low income people, I think everyone should be responsible for paying their own rent.

No govt handouts.
In the same breath I also acknowledge that if subsidized housing did not exist, I would still be funding homeless services in my city.

So I just bite the bullet and get angry that my tax money funds a crappy president to sit VIP in the Super Bowl.

[Anonymous]

^^ I know that money is withdrawn from my work check to fund social resources for poor people.
Section Eight housing is just one of many social services that receives taxpayer monies for underprivileged citizens.
I know I also contribute financially to public school’s free lunch programs as well as grants for poor folks to attend even junior college on my dime like a Pell grant.

In that same breath I would/could never accept that someone being paid off the books less than minimum wage is perfectly acceptable because it is not.
Two wrongs never equal one right.

A good friend of mine years back (like 40+) used to clean houses and a few of her clients preferred to pay her in cash.
Their reasoning was that by doing so, they would not be obligated to pay the minimum wage which is just wrong on many many levels.

[Anonymous]

Minimum wage applies to all work between an employer and an employee. Even if someone is working for cash they still are supposed to make whatever the minimum wage is in their city.

[Anonymous]

Your sister is a criminal.