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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are looking to hire a nanny for our infant. We need a nanny 3 days a week for 33 hours. We will be offering $23 hour net, 4 weeks paid vacation, 5 paid sick days, paid holidays, guaranteed hours, and a stipend for health insurance. We expect the nanny to handle baby housekeeping but also want her to handle emptying the dishwasher, receiving groceries and packages, and throwing a recipe in the crock pot 1-2 times a week. Is it unreasonable to ask?

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Nannies are people who take care of children.  They are not cooks, grocery shoppers, maids or housekeepers.  How would you feel if your boss asked you to clean his private bathroom, wash his gym clothes, or cook his lunch?  You would have a fit.[/quote]

Sure they can be cooks, grocery shoppers, etc.  There is no rule that says they cannot do this.  I agree that a nanny's primary job is child care, but many many families hire nannies to make their lives easier.  This would include running occasional errands during the day, emptying the dishwasher, sweeping the kitchen floor, chopping vegetables for dinner.  Different families have different needs and offer different pay and incentives.  Nanny applicants can pick and choose which jobs appeal to them--we had one nanny who loved to cook and sought out those jobs--and apply accordingly.

Different nanny jobs also come with different degrees of downtime.  One person may have no downtime (so for that job, no duties beyond childcare would be appropriate), another may have several hours while a child is napping or in preschool.  Families will structure the requirements for those jobs accordingly, as they should.  If my nanny has 3 hours of downtime every day I am not paying her thousands of dollars a year to play on her phone during that entire time.  Yes, a break is important and she should get one.  But a three-hour break--sorry, but no.[/quote]

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