nanny has out of state license
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Anonymous
| We recently hired a nanny as part of a share. She lives in our state and filled out all of the tax paperwork using her current in-state address. Driving was not initially part of the job description, as we live in a very walkable area, but now she wants to take the children on outings farther away. She has insurance, but her car is registered out of state using her old address, and she didn't bother changing her address and insurance after moving to our state 6 months ago. I told her this was an issue for me. She told me she is "working on getting things switched over," but she hasn't made any changes a month later. She continues asking to drive the children, and the other family would like her to do so. The other family doesn't care about the registration/insurance issue, and they are acting like I'm being difficult. Am I being unreasonable? |
Anonymous
| I wouldn’t like it. Feels wrong. |
Anonymous
| Dealing with the dmv is hell right now . I don’t see an issues. But to each their own. |
Anonymous
| When I lived out of state for grad school I left everything car insurance and driver's license in MD. I knew it was a state I planned to live in temporarily to get a degree and leave. Worked out for me. |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
| Have you checked the status of her license? We hired a nanny who claimed she had a perfect record. In fact, her record was so poor that State Farm made us sign a notarized document indicating that she would never be allowed to drive our cars. In short, she had so many unpaid tickets that her license had been revoked and a warrant had been issued. You want to check in that before you allow her to drive your chikdren |
Anonymous
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I just moved to VA (work in DC) from CA. It was very easy to switch my insurance from CA to VA but the license and registration is much more of an issue. I can’t even get into the DMV to do so till January.
I would ask that she at lease switch her insurance and then make an appointment for the DMV. But if she’s working on it I don’t see any reason why she can’t drive the kids. I’m a nanny and being stuck with the same routine/local walk or park, is miserable. |
Anonymous
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Could it be due to the pandemic??
My license expired so two months before hand I renewed it (the soonest I could do it in CA, they don’t allow anything sooner then 2 months before you need to renew it). Well it never came. I had to get a temporary and they only do that in person and no appointments due to the pandemic. I stood in line for 4.5 hrs and was the last person allowed in! I got the temporary and it was good for two months. Finally after almost 3 months my new license showed up. But it was stressful. I told my bosses I stood in line with hundreds of people for hours and I could take a Covid test and quarantine if they needed, but luckily I was negative and never sick. Perhaps she doesn’t want to deal with the dmv right now because before the pandemic the dmv sucked and now it’s 100000000% worse |
Anonymous
Yup. I kept my out of state license/insurance/registration for as long as I could when I moved. And I DEFINITELY would have procrastinated dealing with it even more if it had been during the pandemic. Assuming everything is legal and she has a clean record this wouldn't be a big deal for me at all. |
Anonymous
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1. Run a background check.
2. Require the insurance to be switched now, before driving kids. 3. Require to see proof that she has a appointment scheduled at the dmv AND give her the day off to go (expectation is several hours). |
Anonymous
| Division of motor vehicles were closed for months due to Covid. Didn't you run a background check on her? |
Anonymous
Most states give you 30 days to switch you car registration and driver's licence to jurisdiction you move to. She is breaking law. Something must be wrong as it is a very simple process. . maybe Covid had made it difficult. |
Anonymous
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I agree that Covid could have made it difficult to switch, but my understanding is that having your car insured in a state in which you do not live, and not switching after moving, constitutes insurance fraud and any claims can be denied by the insurer. So it is essentially like being uninsured.
I asked to run the driving check on care.com and she told me to wait until she switched things over to our state (not sure why this would matter, but she for some reason wanted me to wait). Then she sent me a screenshot of what was supposedly her current care.com record. It was clean. |
Anonymous
No way. If she has a current care record, you can log in and see it. |
Anonymous
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6 months ago move would put her right into COVID shutdown. In Virginia, it is almost impossible to get an appointment now (I think it is January/February appointments only). Also even if you get an appointment, it is a random time of day, so I can see how it is hard for nanny to take off a day to deal with it. So I’d say give her a break.
I don’t think car insurance has anything to do with the car being registered in another state. In general, I found that it is worth having a third car for parents to maintain and not rely on nanny’s car. |