Anonymous wrote:MYOB

This! Stay out if it

Troll.

Report these evil employers.

MYOB

It is illegal to pay anyone who works for you less than the minimum wage.

If someone provides a service to you for compensation you are required by law to pay them the minimum wage.

Paying in cash does not give you a get out of jail free pass.

This sounds just like a gossip. As positive or negative opinions from others; might be irrelevant to your friend, since she's not the one asking for an advice.

Personally, I would talk to the nanny and make sure she understood the ramifications, and I’d do the same with the family. If nobody wanted to budge, then I’d leave it alone.

Of course it makes sense - a third of an hourly minimum goes to taxes. So the take home would be about $10. If she's getting $12.75 then she's doing better than that.

But stop talking to other people about money.

I was recently speaking w/a friend of one of my neighbors outdoors.

She works for a family nearby & told me that she is working “off the books” for a family.
She told me the job was offered under the table.
She took it because she had lost her full-time previous position due to Covid.

Well the reason (I believe) this current position was offered under the table is because the family does not want to pay this woman minimum wage.
I am not in D.C.
Starting 1/22 our minimum wage is $15/Hr.
This family is paying their Nanny $12.75/Hr in cash + are saying that they are paying less than minimum wage, but since they are not reporting it on their taxes, etc. it all is evened out.

I find this outrageous.
Is this a seemingly fair deal to you?
Paying less than minimum wage in cash, but doing so because the Nanny does not have taxes deducted so it evens out in the end??