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[quote=Anonymous]The short story is this legislation would shut down the vast majority of the exchange.  The real issue is the au pair agencies straight shit on both the families and the au pairs if there's an issue and there's no accountability for it from the regulatory agencies.  We have had an au pair for a little over a year now.  We've hosted 3 others during the same time frame while they waited for a rematch or two go home.  All of them were because the families treated them poorly.  All of them contacted their agency.  And all of them got no noteworthy help from the agency when they needed it.  Could wage increase somewhat?  Yes.  But the nature of the proposed changes makes them employees, not cultural exchange.  If anyone was actually concerned for the well-being of the au pair there would be talk about actually protecting them from predation.  The market is fully capable of deciding pay and the updates to pay will mean au pairs get stuck in shithole states that still have $7.25 min wages and shut the rest of the program down entirely.  Eliminating 85% of a program because 10% of people aren't satisfied is outright moronic...like the supporters of the changes[/quote]

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