Anonymous
Post 08/28/2015 09:28     Subject: What does a nanny do in this situation?
Anonymous wrote:Live-in nanny moves across the country with her NF of two years. She's not paid by the books, and is significantly underpaid $600 a week for 24/7 care of three children under 10. No benefits. No health insurance. Nothing.

Visits her out of state boyfriend, gets pregnant. Tells the family about three months into the pregnancy and the next day they tell her she has 12 hours to remove all her belongings and that she's being let go for "moral ambiguity." She's given a severance pay of $350.

So she's homeless and jobless within a short time frame. Thankfully fellow nannies were able to help her until her boyfriend could arrive. I. Sure she would have had legal rights, but because nothing was done properly she was pretty much at their will.

I've never heard of a family treat an employee so poorly. I feel like many naive nannies can be really taken advantage of...


That was really rotten of the family. It seems quite unkind and mean. Without a single document (contract, lease, written agreement of any kind) I don't see how it's actionable however.

Not exactly grown-up behavior from the nanny in this instance either. (No contract, no agreement, no documentation, unplanned pregnancy, no back-up plans in place when telling employer of pregnancy, relying on "other nannies" or boyfriend to get her through, etc...)

So I think this nanny got a rude awakening, but the real lesson is in growing up - quickly - before she has a baby.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2015 08:49     Subject: What does a nanny do in this situation?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Oops I got pregnant. Please take care of me while I provide shoddy childcare for your kids, take off for various appointments, and need to replaced anyhow in 8 months.
Maybe later the guy will marry me....



I am a SAHM and obviously needed to care for my first child while pregnant with my second. Was I giving my first child "shoddy childcare" due to my pregnancy?


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Anonymous
Post 08/28/2015 08:46     Subject: Re:What does a nanny do in this situation?
Never, ever work off-the-books. It is illegal and this nanny has no recourse at all.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2015 08:39     Subject: What does a nanny do in this situation?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Oops I got pregnant. Please take care of me while I provide shoddy childcare for your kids, take off for various appointments, and need to replaced anyhow in 8 months.
Maybe later the guy will marry me....



I am a SAHM and obviously needed to care for my first child while pregnant with my second. Was I giving my first child "shoddy childcare" due to my pregnancy?


Not saying anything about nannies here, but I know that I was. My older 3 spent a lot of time laying in my bed watching TV with me during the last month of my last pregnancy.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2015 07:58     Subject: What does a nanny do in this situation?
Anonymous wrote:Oops I got pregnant. Please take care of me while I provide shoddy childcare for your kids, take off for various appointments, and need to replaced anyhow in 8 months.
Maybe later the guy will marry me....



I am a SAHM and obviously needed to care for my first child while pregnant with my second. Was I giving my first child "shoddy childcare" due to my pregnancy?
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2015 07:52     Subject: What does a nanny do in this situation?
Oops I got pregnant. Please take care of me while I provide shoddy childcare for your kids, take off for various appointments, and need to replaced anyhow in 8 months.
Maybe later the guy will marry me....