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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't have enough money to cover 2-4 weeks of severance for your EMPLOYEE(s), you can't afford to have employees. Why is this even an argument? In this case the employee is a nanny, but that's irrelevant.

No, you don't need to be extremely wealthy to have a nanny - my employers are not wealthy, but they have saved aggressively and I have no doubt that had DB not been deemed essential-with-pay, they'd have been able to continue paying me or, at the very least, to pay my severance which is four weeks. Emergencies happen, sure, but you have a responsibility as an employer. Maybe that means you set aside your nanny's severance pay in a savings account and don't touch it unless you need it. Maybe it means you eat out less or don't go on vacation this year. Maybe it doesn't mean anything and you can afford to live as usual. But it is very surprising to me that so many MBs here think they don't have an obligation to pay their employees... who, as an aside, don't receive any of the perks that govt workers do (health insurance, disability, retirement, pensions) so don't even try and pretend we're all in the same boat here.[/quote]

I agree with you and do feel like a lot of people live beyond their means. I feel like for this particular family, however, the circumstances are different. She had a baby and took maternity leave which took out a lot of their savings. No, it wasn't an "emergency" to go on maternity leave and maybe it would have been wiser for her to take less time off but I doubt they thought BOTH of them would be out of work and unpaid at the same time so shortly after her maternity leave. After the maternity they also had an expensive unplanned repair on their house which IS an emergency. [/quote]

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