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[quote=Anonymous]I agree the rates people are posting are crazy, but my guess is that care and sitter city don't want to get started down the road of warnings and other notices along the lines proposed by Nanny Deb.  those are really good ideas, but unfortunately, their lawyers likely have (rightly) advised them that it is better to take no steps to regulate the postings than to take anything less than full steps to provide the legal requirements for nannies.  That is, right now they don't have a duty to do anything for anyone - employers post below minimum wage jobs at their own risk and nannies accept jobs at their own risk.  But if they start providing some advice, but not full advice (or they get it wrong for a certain state or don't keep up fully with every law change), people may reasonably rely on their bad advice, and open them to a lawsuit.  Maybe that isn't the right thing to do, but it makes legal sense.

Good nannies just ignore the low ball jobs.  My sense as an MB was that my child's nanny and others I interviewed for the position were not competing against 150 a week nannies, and if I'd been dumb enough to post such a cheap offer, none of the candidates we chose from would have bothered to respond and we'd have learned quickly.  There is a big difference between the ongoing 15/hour for one kid or 20/hour for one kid debate that DCUM has about what is "market" and these 2 dollar and hour jobs that no poster here would ever be forced to consider.  Maybe the former is a debate to have and a cause for bitterness of you feel underpaid.  The latter shouldn't make anyone here bitter because even the MBs posting that it was a typo are not actually defending a 100/week salary.[/quote]

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