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[quote=Anonymous]Let me start off by stating that I know I got the sh*t end of the stick when I took this job. I knew it when I signed the contract. I'm in my early 20s and an online college student. I became an "online" student in October when I accepted this job in order to accomodate the hours. Prior to that I was just a regular student at the same liberal arts school. I took the job because I really needed one and I needed one fast. Please try not to bash me, I know it was stupid. And I was experienced enough as a nanny to know that from the beginning. My bad.

I agreed to work 50/hrs a week at a rate of 6/hr and in exchange had room and board in the large garage apartment behind the house. My charges are twins and I started working with them when they were 2 days old. I started covering the night shifts 9pm-7am when they were born and then in January transitioned to days 8am-6pm. We agreed to do all of this under the table (and that actually is documented in the contract). I have been unhappy (as you can imagine) with the work load and lack of pay for sometime now.

I was out of town last week and out of the blue my boss asks for my social security number (which she already had via the contract) so she could file taxes. I talked to her on the phone and told her that this was a huge problem for me. We agreed to discuss on my first day back to work and that was today. She came home at lunch time and told me that she already filed taxes for 2013 and wrote me down as a child care employee. However, her accountant told her that the amount wasn't high enough to require her to file a 1099 (which just isn't true) and that it wouldn't impact me in anyway, which also isn't true. I'm really upset because I would have been willing to do things on the books from the get go.....as long as she raised the pay a little.

She also pulled the figure of 1,000/month for this apartment out of her you know what and is factoring that into my income. I'm receiving 300/cash a week and she is taxing me a ridiculous amount (for my area) for this apartment. Also, I'm not even being paid minimum wage even though I've worked 10 hours overtime each week since the start of emplyoment! The legalities of it all have my head spinning and I thought maybe someone here could help me sort this through. No where in the contract does it mention that the apartment is worth 1,000/mo or that it's worth any dollar amount for that matter!

Needless to say I'm leaving this job as soon as I can. I actually already had a plan in motion - I just will have to expedite it. But in the meantime, do I have any recourse? She has to file a 1099, doesn't she? Does she have to pay at least minimum wage on those overtime hours? I don't think it's fair for her to only play by the rules where it's convenient for her.

Please excuse any spelling errors. I'm upset.[/quote]

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