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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fair point, 17:31, and your post highlights one of the many difficulties in crafting a truly fair contract. I could agree to your perspective, but it would leave me in the same precarious position as you believe it would leave my nanny.

There are no easy answers.[/quote]

Are there any other jobs in which you would be denied a regular written evaluation, if requested? I just don't believe that. I [i]guess[/i] I understand your hesitation (not really), but it isn't like you're going to have this wonderful nanny until the day you write your first letter, who then uses it as her opportunity to do something terrible. And EITHER WAY, even if you did fail to spot a bad apple when making your hire, etc. etc., a letter from a previous job is only going to go so far if she can't then use you as a verbal reference as well.

I wouldn't take any job with an MB who refused at [i]least[/i] semi-annual written references.[/quote]

I am not the MB that you are responding to, but I agree with her.  To answer your question, annual written evaluations have been standard in every professional job that I have ever had - but it is pretty clear that they are a PITA for bosses, and I cannot even imagine asking for one every 3 months.  And a written evaluation is much different than a recommendation/reference, which at least implies that it must be a positive evaluation.  [b]As a MB, I would have no problem with agreeing to a meeting to discuss things and a written evaluation at the end of the first 3 months and then every 6 months after that.[/b]  But there is simply no way I would be comfortable committing to provide a recommendation to a nanny before she had even worked for me.[/quote]

That timeline sounds perfectly reasonable. Would the contract sit better with you MBs if it were worded in such a way to indicate written references/recommendations would be provided every 6 months so long as the nanny were fulfilling her duties? All of my past employers have been happy to agree to this request, so it's quite surprising to see multiple people feeling outraged at the thought - or even believing that a previously wonderful nanny would suddenly turn bad upon receiving such a letter![/quote]

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