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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The PP is exactly right. By law (FLSA), even the best, most experienced, college-educated nannies are not true ("learned") professionals. If they were, they could be paid a salary instead of an hourly wage and they would be exempt from overtime.

Some people use the term "professional" nanny to refer to a "career" nanny, meaning someone with several years of experience. Of course, strictly speaking, anyone who gets paid to work in a particular field is a professional in that field.

I think nannies and nanny-employers alike would benefit from a legal system that recognized nannying as an early childhood education specialty with a formal education requirement and a licensure requirement. However, and sadly, Congress just doesn't see nannying as skilled labor.

Nannies are designated hourly employees to prevent abuses you fool. It has nothing to do with being a professional. I do agree that this industry could certainly do with more regulation, but because nannies are employed by single employers, the government has neither the care or the resources to police individual household employers. Because of that, it is best for nannies to remain hourly employers. If they weren't none of the MBs on this board would be paying anywhere near a fair wage. You all already do everything you can to skirt the FLSA and OT. Nannies would be on the call essentially 24/7, making little more than you pay for daycare; $15-$25k/year.[/quote]

Name calling and slandering employers certainly doesn't make you appear professional, nor worthy of respect. Step up your game.[/quote]

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