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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, know that background and credit checks are routine for most jobs these days.[/quote]

Not for other "unskilled" jobs. The credit and background check requirements are for people whose work require a certain amount of responsibility and ethical sense. In faft, I did not undergo a background or credit check for my office job which puts me in one on one relatively unsupervised contact with children. [/quote]

Any skilled or unskilled workers in a medium-large company usually gets a background check. Your company is potentially exposing themselves to risk by not performing them, but of course that's their choice.[/quote]

This really isn't true. My teenaged brother didn't go through a background check to work at McDonalds or Target. I also never did when I worked those types of jobs. Those are the actual unskilled labor jobs. To compare being a nanny to those jobs is ridiculous, which was kind of the point. [/quote]

If they were considered the same, you'd be making minimum wage. So no, they aren't the same. Nor are the paid the same.

According to this definition, nannying would be a semi-skilled job.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/unskilled-work-semi-skilled-work-skilled-work-social-security-disability.html
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There are lots of parents attempting to pay less than that! So the fact that I not personally making minimum wage doesn't change the fact that so many in our society and on this board consider nannies unskilled insignificant workers. [/quote]

I think most people would agree that nannies are equal to [b][b]waiters/flight attendants[/b]/furniture movers[/b] in terms of skill. No education or special training required, no special skills necessary.

And honestly, you are still missing the point. It doesn't MATTER what people consider nannies to be- salary isn't determined by social value or likability. [/quote]

Not at all. Most waiters who serve alcohol (so 80%-ish) are required to have some type of license requiring a class/test and yearly renewal. And flight attendants? Seriously? Do you no know how much training is required and how stringent the requirements to become one is, not to mention the security clearances? I'm sure even furniture movers have to pass a background check if they are working for a legitimately bonded company...Your analogies are WAY off. [/quote]

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