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Forcing a confined domestic worker in your house to go without food for 10 or 12 hours a day is WRONG and illegal. If she has the opportunity to bring in her own sufficient food, terrific. The nanny employer can save a couple of dollars a day.

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I'm pretty sure it's been agreed upon that this is wrong, and NOT AT ALL the case in any of the situations posters are mentioning. Why do you feel the need to keep beating a dead horse...I can't honestly believe this has ever happened (let alone to a nanny informed enough to be trolling...I mean posting...here). [/quote]
If we all agree, why are people still arguing if your domestic worker should be required to bring her own food if she needs to eat during her 10-12 hour work day?[/quote]

"Forcing a confined domestic worker in your house to go without food for 10 or 12 hours a day"  implies that the nanny has no access to food at all.  If an employer stipulates that she bring her own food, and then she fails to do so, how is the employer responsible? Yes, they should be courteous and offer what is available in this case (and most if not all do) but I'm failing to see where you are making the leap to forced starvation (for 10 to 12 hours). Providing meals/snacks is a perk, a very common and much welcome one to be sure, but still a perk none the less. Not being offered this perk is not akin to being starved for the entire day. Grow up, pack a lunch, and stop being so dramatic. [/quote]

What you perceive as "drama", many domestic workers may insist is a basic human right.

Why would any employer try to stipulate in a contract that her domestic worker is required to bring her own food if she needs to eat?

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