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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I told my nanny we have a camera in the basement and for the rest of the year, she never ever went in there and brought all the toys and every single thing upstairs. We pay a lot of money for extra space that we never use.

I would advise against it. I personally think a camera is to gain trust in your nanny that she would treat your charges when no one is around, since you can not have a camera watching every move 100% of the time. If you disclose, the behavior changes and you don't know what she is doing to the kid when there is no camera.

A lot of nannies will tell you that you must disclose but I think this is their way of "winning" in a power struggle. Many will threaten to quit but the same people also complain about living paycheck to paycheck and needing guaranteed hours and such and I highly doubt that they would quit with no notice on the spot if they found a camera. I think if they were so difficult that they could not work under a camera, they'd have a hard time finding a job too, and they'd take months to find a new job while you'd have a replacement in 2 weeks.

I've worked for a handful of different companies, some very large. All of them had cameras. No one ever disclosed them to me, on HR orientation day or after.

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Wow you just have it all figured out! I don't live paycheck to paycheck, I require guaranteed hours to work with me because I expect my time to be valued and it can't be reserved for free, and while I wouldn't quit on the spot after finding the camera, I would immediately begin job hunting and quit with no notice once a job was secured. Parents love to put an honesty clause in the contract as grounds for immediate termination, and it is simple enough to ask for that to be a mutual clause. I recommend that all nannies do it. If you catch a parent in a significant lie/act of deceit they deserve to have the contract terminated just as any nanny would be fired for lying. Finding a job without secret cameras isn't hard, because the reality is that most parents don't use them, and many who do disclose. The percentage of parents secretly filming their nannies is small and easily avoidable.[/quote]

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