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[quote=Anonymous]I live in Bethesda where I enjoy having many World Bank/IMF families as neighbors.  They are all lovely people.

Over the past 10 years, our nanny has gotten well-acquainted with many of the nannies for the World Bank/IMF families.  She's enjoyed doing playdates at the park with them, etc.  She is something of a mother hen to them.

Our nanny occasionally asks me for advice on compensation issues relating to her friends who are nannies for World Bank/IMF families.  I've noticed that many of these World Bank/IMF families pay very low hourly rates (sometimes a fair bit less than $10 per hour) to care for 1-2 small children, cook, and clean.  The jobs at the World Bank/IMF seem very demanding, and so the nannies are working long hours.  Also, when these families visit their home countries, they seem NOT to pay their nannies for the 3 weeks that they are gone, even though the World Bank/IMF is paying them while they are on vacation.

The advice I have given our nanny (to share with her nanny friends on a confidential basis) has been for these nannies to stand up for themselves by asking, for example, to be paid while their employer is on vacation.  But this is easier said than done.  Many of these ladies seem to just accept whatever the employer gives them, perhaps because that is their culture or because they don't want to rock the boat at all.

I had figured that these World Bank/IMF employees were well-educated and progressive and would support the mission of the World Bank/IMF -- helping the poor.  I hope that they'll consider paying a living wage, which I understand to be about $13 per hour in Montgomery County.  Also, I hope that they will not wait for their nanny to advocate for herself.[/quote]

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