This is ridiculous. While we've always had food available because we don't eat out a lot, there is no way that asking a live out nanny to bring her lunch is a human rights violation. This is just plain offensive that you draw this correlation.

A live in who is brought over from another country, never allowed to leave the house, has her passport taken away and is basically locked in is a serious human rights violation. An entitled, stupid, bratty live out American nanny can bring her lunch.

Anonymous wrote:You should be given time to eat a meal, not time to go out for a meal. Lots of people bring their lunch. It is called being an adult and taking care of yourself.

Bringing your food to work is an option in American society. Not "you can starve all day long" if you didn't bring your lunch. Admit it.

You should be given time to eat a meal, not time to go out for a meal. Lots of people bring their lunch. It is called being an adult and taking care of yourself.

Anonymous wrote:Nannies have access to food if they bring their lunch.

The average nanny is likely working ten hours a day in your house. Many of them work twelve hours a day, plus travel time for live-outs. One might easily imagine they consume all of their meals while at work, considering their very long hours in your house. Logic would have it that they would need most of your refrigerator space, and you should be delegated a small part of it for when you might eat at home once a day, if that.

And you thought the nanny should learn to live on a cold sandwich all day? This, not to mention that her work is significantly more physically demanding than your desk job.


Domestic workers have every right to be provided food at fulltime jobs that have no option for a break to go out for a meal.

Nannies have access to food if they bring their lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:Link to a government document specifying this or it isn't true, OP.

To what? That it's a human rights issue if domestic workers have no access to food during their working hours in your home?

...and have no lunch break to go out and buy some some food, like you may do in your workplace?

Anonymous wrote:Link to a government document specifying this or it isn't true, OP.

To what? That it's a human rights issue if domestic workers have no access to food during their working hours in your home?

Link to a government document specifying this or it isn't true, OP.

Anonymous wrote:I 100% agree that if you are a nanny and your employers refuse to let you leave the house, refuse to allow you to being your own food, refuse to let you eat anything in their house, and refuse to provide you with a break for you to get your own food, that you should absolutely quit and find a new job. Fortunately, most employers are happy to allow at least one of these options.

I agree 100% that employers who take advantage of domestic workers and violate basic human rights should be reported and held accountable.

I 100% agree that if you are a nanny and your employers refuse to let you leave the house, refuse to allow you to being your own food, refuse to let you eat anything in their house, and refuse to provide you with a break for you to get your own food, that you should absolutely quit and find a new job. Fortunately, most employers are happy to allow at least one of these options.

Anonymous wrote:Or she can stop and pick something up while our with the child. Or as the majority of us have said, she is welcome to ocassionally make herself a sandwich if she's forgotten to bring something for herself, or can help herself to a snack or drink. Not welcoming your nanny to add things to your grocery list does not amount to a human rights issue.

Repeat: No one says you have to give your fulltime domestic worker "special" food, but you DO need to provide food. Anything less than that IS a human rights issue. She may prefer to buy her own food some (or even all) of the time, but you ARE still obligated to have sufficient food available during her work day, if she has not brought her own food into your home. OR you may arrange a break time so she can go out for lunch, just like you can do at your job.

Or she can stop and pick something up while our with the child. Or as the majority of us have said, she is welcome to ocassionally make herself a sandwich if she's forgotten to bring something for herself, or can help herself to a snack or drink. Not welcoming your nanny to add things to your grocery list does not amount to a human rights issue.

Anonymous wrote:Stop making everything a human rights issue. How is she "confined"? If she is provided with space to store her lunch, then she is not denied her human right to eat.

Adding vitamin waters to the family's grocery list is not a human right.

You are required to provide food for domestic workers who have no break for 10-12 hours a day, not special food, just food. Or you can let them have a break once a day.

Stop making everything a human rights issue. How is she "confined"? If she is provided with space to store her lunch, then she is not denied her human right to eat.

Adding vitamin waters to the family's grocery list is not a human right.

Google
"Domestic Workers Rights in the United States"

The question of providing the nanny food while she is confined to your workplace, is a matter of human rights.

Alternatively, you can arrange to let her have one break a day to go out and get some food to eat, just like you can legally do at your job.