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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]How much do you and your husband make compared to the nanny? She probably makes $40,000 and together you make mid-six figures and you have no qualms about reducing her salary by 1/5 a week! If you do this, I hope she finds another job and soon. You are beneath contempt and I am not a nanny.[/quote]

Really? :roll:

Last I knew, I respected our nanny enough to trust if she didn't think she could make a living in her chosen profession...she would choose another profession.

Imagine that. I trust our nanny. Clearly. you don't. [/quote]

Profession?  This is a joke.  Professionals are not hourly employees.  [/quote]
Really? Who told you that? I know lots of professions who are hourly employees. You're just being silly, aren't you?[/quote]

Lawyers have an hourly rate but are not hourly employees.  Doctors, engineers, teachers, dentists, architects, are professional as they have specific academic requirements to receive a diploma and must take state examinations that license them to practice their profession.  Anyone can be a nanny.  [/quote]

Agreed.  Nannies are professionals in the sense that they get paid to provide a service.  In this sense, grocery store clerks and janitors are also professionals.  However, nannies are not "bona fide professionals" (true professionals) within the meaning of the labor laws.  This is why they must be W2 employees and must be paid for every hour worked.  In the eyes of the law, nanny work simply does not involve enough creativity or knowledge to qualify the nanny as a professional.  Nannies are presumed to work to the standards and specifications of the employer, without exercising independent judgment or discretion as to significant matters.

Until this changes, nannies will never get the respect of teachers and other early childhood workers.  They just are not learned or creative professionals in the same sense.  And nannies will continue to feel frustrated that they don't get the respect from parents that they feel they deserve, while parents will continue to feel frustrated by the fact that there is no quality control in the nanny field, as a direct result of the fact that anyone, with any level of skill and training, can call herself a nanny.[/quote]

Parents don't want that, though, they'd have to pay more![/quote]

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