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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do understand that the courts have a lot more pressing matters to deal with than your allegedly secret recordings of allegedly illegal questions that have no actual consequences, right?

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You should be ashamed of discouraging people from asserting their rights. You can ask whatever questions you like when hiring, you are NOT allowed to make hiring decisions off of them. If a nanny can prove that you did, then you deserve everything you get. And, yes, many employment laws do not extend to small employers and domestic workers, but times are changing sweetie, and they are changing because someone spoke up. Stop encouraging people to remain silent. [/quote]

No is discouraging nannies from asserting rights. Rather, they're making clear what those rights are or are not. There are reasons the laws don't apply to employers of just one or a few employees. You may not like it, but it is the law. Given that these are specific, reasoned exemptions to laws, I doubt time will change them, sweetie. [/quote]

What good reason is there for allowing discrimination? Please enlighten me sweetie. Time and action WILL and IS changing them. Domestic worker bill of rights are popping up in states all over this country, extending OT, unemployment insurance, reasonable break times, and living quarters to a faction of workers largely ignored by the general populace, many of which tolerate various levels of legally sanctioned abuse. [b]Modern day indentured servitude is ending, like it or not. [/quote][/b]

Ooooh, the DRAMA!

Yes, modern day servitude - [b]like that of a professional nanny who is paid at least 2 to 3 times minimum wage, plus some level of health insurance benefits, overtime, on the books, with vacation and sick leave, and possibly additional benefits.  For a job where he/she can wear comfortable clothing, be outside in great weather, play with kids (whom theoretically they enjoy - given their choice of work), etc...[/b]

Cry me a river.  Go try to support a family working at McDonald's before you criticize the compensation and working conditions I offer my "indentured servants".[/quote]

Okay 1) I said nothing about YOU in particular (giant ego much?) and 2) Are you under the crazy impression that all nanny jobs are like the bolded hypothetical? Because if so, you are egregiously mistaken. LOTS of nannies make FAR less than 3 times minimum wage, plenty make less than minimum wage. Very few receive healthcare benefits, even those who are well paid. Many do not receive OT, and are not aware they are entitled to it. Many are not paid on the books, nor do they understand the value of above board employment. Many do not get paid leave, and many are expected to work come hell or high fevers, and even the ones who get leave most of the time their boss gets to designate when half or more of it is (fun right?!). As for the rest of your statement, those are not benefits, simply enjoyable aspects of the job. We also wipe butts, and noses all day, get sneezed coughed and puked on, and deal with crying and temper tantrums from our charges and employers alike. Its not all rainbows and sunshine.

Most of the nannies on this board are educated and confident enough that these abuses don't happen to us, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, nor does it mean we are okay with it, or that we don't care that the law ALLOWS so much of it. So many nannies DO live in near servitude and it IS a problem. 
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