Is this even legal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be a simple programming matter to change the lowest increment to start at $7.25 rather than $5. Care.com is choosing to cater to parents without regard for the nannies (their product), even those who would offer illegal wages. The parents may pay for use of the site, but care.com has no product if good nannies refuse to use it, and parents would cease to pay for it. Care.com is an unscrupulous business and instead of complaining, we really should just stop using it. Even if we all just deactivated our accounts until they agreed to change things, they'd have no choice.

+1
Shame on the owners who pretend to "care". The complaints on them with the Better Business Bureau are more than I've ever seen with any other company. The only thing they seem to care about, is their profits. And now they've expanded into the UK and are working to get into Asia.

[Anonymous]

To OP's post - how super super sad for those parents - to effectively only have their child for the worst time of the day (evening hours when everyone wants to be sleeping). And of coruse so sad for baby.

I don't think it's illegal to post the range since min wage falls within the range. No way will OP get anyone to reply who has any business watching an infant though.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like many PPs don't understand how sites like care.com work. They are not offering jobs at low wages, parents are. They are like a file sharing site, legally, and not culpable. The people breaking the law are the ones who actually hire at and pay below minimum wage.

[Anonymous]

Care is not setting the price on anything, that is up to the employer.

The pay range tool is for advertising a job, once you make contact, you get into the specifics and can decide on pay to the exact dollar/cent.

It's typical for a jobs salary not to be advertised, but rather the salary range.

You're all getting worked up about something very silly.

[Anonymous]

No one else posts an illegal salary range for obvious reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one else posts an illegal salary range for obvious reasons.

Try to keep up, honey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shut up. You don't know that anybody's offering a job at below minimum wage, as the minimum wage is within that range. Find simmering worthwhile to bitch about.

Someone is mad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up. You don't know that anybody's offering a job at below minimum wage, as the minimum wage is within that range. Find simmering worthwhile to bitch about.

Someone is mad.

Yeah and it aint PP.

If someone is desperate enough to work for $5 then thats their problem.. There will always be suckers taking cheap wages because they're desperate. And there will always be parents will to shell their kids out to low skilled childcare workers for cheap prices..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up. You don't know that anybody's offering a job at below minimum wage, as the minimum wage is within that range. Find simmering worthwhile to bitch about.

Someone is mad.

Yeah and it aint PP.

If someone is desperate enough to work for $5 then thats their problem.. There will always be suckers taking cheap wages because they're desperate. And there will always be parents will to shell their kids out to low skilled childcare workers for cheap prices..

willing*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up. You don't know that anybody's offering a job at below minimum wage, as the minimum wage is within that range. Find simmering worthwhile to bitch about.

Someone is mad.

Yeah and it aint PP.

If someone is desperate enough to work for $5 then thats their problem.. There will always be suckers taking cheap wages because they're desperate. And there will always be parents will to shell their kids out to low skilled childcare workers for cheap prices..

willing*

What you say is true, and illegal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up. You don't know that anybody's offering a job at below minimum wage, as the minimum wage is within that range. Find simmering worthwhile to bitch about.

Someone is mad.

Yeah and it aint PP.

If someone is desperate enough to work for $5 then thats their problem.. There will always be suckers taking cheap wages because they're desperate. And there will always be parents will to shell their kids out to low skilled childcare workers for cheap prices..

willing*

What you say is true, and illegal.

It's perfectly legal in some situations. The law doesn't conform to your opinion of right and wrong, sorry PP.

[nannydebsays]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why the increment can start at $5. Care.com has covered their bases.

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/youthlabor/wages.htm

The job is 6am to 8pm. That's more than full time. They are obviously not looking for a "casual" babysitter, as defined by the law. I'd hate to know which laws you think aren't for you.

Reading comprehension must not be your strong suit. I posted the link as a justification to why care.com can start the pay increments at $5. I said nothing about the original post's details. Obviously in that case it would be illegal. If a parent were looking to say, hire a 15 year old for an evening of babysitting, they would be well within the rights to pay $5/hr, hence the website providing that option. It may not be ethical, but it is legal.

The simple fact is that Care is indifferent to what people are paid. Care gets their $$ from the job providers, not the job seekers in most cases, so that's why care won't make what seems like a simple change to the available wages that a job provider can choose, replacing $5/hour with "Legal Minimum Wage"/hour.

I would guess that anyone willing to work for $70/day caring for a child is not intelligent enough to provide decent care. Or that person is willing to be paid crap in order to have access to a child or children, which is even worse.

[Anonymous]

People: two issues here

Programming for rate bands is easier if the same fir all jobs lauded. Full time part time adults teenagers etc.

OP listed a specific job that included a pay band.
Stop reading into it.

Ultimately it is up to the employer to provide legal wages and up to th employee to not accept anything below min wage. Though an awful lot of nannies have no qualms about getting paid under the table regardless of the hourly wage. Get huffy about THAT next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be a simple programming matter to change the lowest increment to start at $7.25 rather than $5. Care.com is choosing to cater to parents without regard for the nannies (their product), even those who would offer illegal wages. The parents may pay for use of the site, but care.com has no product if good nannies refuse to use it, and parents would cease to pay for it. Care.com is an unscrupulous business and instead of complaining, we really should just stop using it. Even if we all just deactivated our accounts until they agreed to change things, they'd have no choice.

+1
Shame on the owners who pretend to "care". The complaints on them with the Better Business Bureau are more than I've ever seen with any other company. The only thing they seem to care about, is their profits. And now they've expanded into the UK and are working to get into Asia.

Considering all the complaints this company has with the BBB.org, their pay range problem isn't even on their radar. It's only a matter of time until their house of cards comes crashing down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't care/sittercity in cahoots with the ina? Hopefully the ina has severed ties with them. Not sure.

Anyone know?