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21.42, your post is too long to respond inline so I'm posting the answer separately. Let's address your points.

1.  No privacy.  You said it yourself that most employers don't go into nanny's quarters.
2. Sound carries.  Fact of life.  It carries in apartments and multifamily living as well.  Would the nanny's apartment be free of sound?
3. Food.  No one has any idea what "most families" or "most nannies" do.  There's no need to make up a narrative to suit your position.
4. Dealing with upset kids is a reality of life.
5. Boundaries are a reality of life.
6 through 10.  Made up, and not specific to live-in nannies.  Easily solved by not working for assholes.

But that's not the most important thing.  The most important thing is that you inserted your own interpretation of the law into the actual law. You interpreted the point about "voluntarily" as "living in is not a requirement for this position."  This is just your read of it; the facts do not bear it out.  I interpret it to mean "room and board is part of the compensation for this position, and the employee accepts it voluntarily without a gun to her head."

You also inserted a personal interpretation of (3), stating that "lodging is primarily for the benefit of the employee" means "the employee has no other means of housing herself."  I don't even understand what that means - of course there are always other means of housing, no one HAS to live with their employers. Dismissed as made up.

If most nannies would rather find their own housing than get their wages docked below the minimum wage, then the question begs itself - why don't they?  If what you say is true, the market for $500/week live-in nannies wouldn't exist.  And it does. [/quote]
What an ass. Hardly worth more of a response. Most domestic workers are illegals, Einstein.[/quote]
All our nannies have been legal, but what do I know? Perhaps a random bozo from the interwebz knows more about the women she's never met than I do. [/quote]

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