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[quote=nannydebsays]Care.com ad today offering a whopping $850/MONTH to care for a newborn 8 - 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. They'd up the pay to $950/MONTH if you also did grocery shopping, ran errands, and did housework.

It's not just that new parents are clueless, it's that care.com doesn't HELP clue them in. [b]Care does NOT mandate minimum wage, they allow parents to offer $5 - $10/hour.[/b][b] And care also offers a badly worded check box system for nannies to use that allows us to "ask" to be paid legally.

I'm no IT expert, but hard freaking hard could it be to do the following:

1) When parents want to post a job, the first thing they see from care after a basic registration page is care's "babysitter rate calculator" - there's a clue for the clueless right there - rates in your area are $12/hour? Don't post a $2/hour job!

2) When you post your job, you have to read and choose what pay option you will offer. Illegal pay will be called just that, and a warning will be included about IRS laws, FLSA laws, etc.

3) There is NO OPTION to choose wages below federal minimum. To cover care's a$$ on occasional work or true babysitter jobs, offer a "negotiable market rate" ticky box.

4) Allow caregivers to "review" families that offer illegal wages or refuse to pay legally. Nothing long needed, just more ticky boxes.

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