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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We pay $10/hr with a minimum of 250/week regardless of schedule. So if au pair works 10 hours she gets $250 but if she works 45 she gets $450.[/quote] i Isn’t the stipend set by the agency? To answer OP, if you are going over 45 hours and doing it as a cash in hand type thing, I would pay her what you would pay a regular sitter. [/quote]

Minimum stipend is set by Department of State. There is no reason not to pay above the minimum which during pandemic has become the new standard. Negotiating stipend etc[/quote]
Okay, we don't pay over stipend. Never have. I don't know why this is the new standard. There are countries issuing visas again. If you want to pay over stipend, that is your choice, but it isn't a new standard.[/quote]

Actually it is. This is one of the results of the lawsuit: au pairs are supposed to negotiate for more pay. [/quote]

Errm. Not exactly. APs can negotiate for more stipend - but are also liable for taxes on any perks (phone, car, gym membership, car insurance, housing, etc) and the lawsuits were not nation-wide, it depends how AP service is defined under state law). For example, au pairs are NOT considered employees in NY, California, DC, etc. [/quote]

No. The lawsuit I am referencing *was* nationwide and was about antitrust (price fixing). You’re mixing that up with the labor law disputes. That’s a completely different thing. Part of the antitrust lawsuit settlement was that agencies must instruct au pairs that the stipend is only a floor and they can and should negotiate pay. Which smart au pairs now do and paying above stipend is becoming the norm. [/quote]

No - agencies were not required to indicate that they should be paid more than the stipend - they were instructed to indicate that they could ask for more than the stipend not that they should ask for more than the stipend. This is a huge difference. A dedicated car is compensation. A gym membership is compensation. The educational stipend is compensation. Car insurance is compensation. Paying for gas for non-kid trips is compensation. Plenty of people pay the stipend and the AP makes all kinds of calculations based on the living conditions (private v. shared bathroom), the number of kids, the certainty of schedule, etc. [/quote]

People on this board will go to such great lengths to pretend they weren’t wrong SMH. [/quote]

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