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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The face of true domestic worker exploitation, has *many* colors. [/quote]

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You're absolutely right, of course. There are many other issues not covered by these statistics, but I do think we minimize the [i]many[/i] true problems by wasting even a breath of energy arguing about providing free food to a live-out employee.[/quote]
No one said there has to be free food in the house. There simply must be available food for when your worker doesn't have any of her own and can't go out and buy herself a sandwich.[/quote]

I will not allow you to derail this thread. This will be my only response to this absurdity:

Live-out nannies are not entitled to meals, although I agree it is a nice gesture. But teachers aren't allowed to leave their jobs to buy lunch, but they don't live at their jobs so they have the opportunity to buy and prepare meals for themselves ahead of time; nannies are no different. [/quote]
Sorry to disappoint you, but there's nothing absurd about having food available for your FT worker who has no access to any of her own food or even to go out and buy herself an apple. You forgot that teachers and even hospital doctors and nurses have onsite access to cafeterias.

Slavery is outlawed. You may not starve your worker who hasn't brought her own food into your house.

Why is this even an argument for you? What kind of human being would not welcome your child's caregiver to make herself a sandwich at her workplace in your house?
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A teacher doesn't get to eat in the cafeteria where the kids eat. And yes, if doctors and nurses work in a hospital they have access to a cafeteria but what about those doctors who don't work in a hospital? Not all doctors work in places with food available and most don't have time to leave the building to buy lunch. So they bring their lunch.

FWIW I don't have any problem with my nanny eating my food, she usually brings her lunch though and just snacks on what we have. I think it would be weird to tell the nanny she could never touch our food or if she forgot her lunch she should be able to make something from our food but I also think it would be weird if she never brought her own lunch and always expected me to provide hers. [/quote]

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