Anonymous wrote:Just to be accurate, it's an agreement, not a contract. A contract is legally enforceable; whatever you call it, it's not legally enforceable.

So when you take a job with unreasonable demands, find a new job and leave. No two weeks. Nothing. You don't owe them anything. They owe you. They owe you decent treatment, like a person, not a slave girl. They owe you a living wage. No judge in this great land will let anyone sue a poor hard working nanny, for anything.

You can sue them, and win, if they don't pay you properly. That's the main reason to have an agreement. That's the only part that is legally enforceable. That long list of housecleaning is NOT the job of a nanny. If they wanted a house cleaner, they have to be honest and say so. A nanny is NOT a housekeeper. If they want you to do two jobs, they need to pay you to do two jobs. A nanny takes care of the child, not the toilet scrubbing and floor polishing. Please. Wake up to nanny abuse. It's too much to ignore. Most of us see it happening.

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Anonymous wrote:Just to be accurate, it's an agreement, not a contract. A contract is legally enforceable; whatever you call it, it's not legally enforceable.

So when you take a job with unreasonable demands, find a new job and leave. No two weeks. Nothing. You don't owe them anything. They owe you. They owe you decent treatment, like a person, not a slave girl. They owe you a living wage. No judge in this great land will let anyone sue a poor hard working nanny, for anything.

You can sue them, and win, if they don't pay you properly. That's the main reason to have an agreement. That's the only part that is legally enforceable. That long list of housecleaning is NOT the job of a nanny. If they wanted a house cleaner, they have to be honest and say so. A nanny is NOT a housekeeper. If they want you to do two jobs, they need to pay you to do two jobs. A nanny takes care of the child, not the toilet scrubbing and floor polishing. Please. Wake up to nanny abuse. It's too much to ignore. Most of us see it happening.

Please STOP REPEATING the same nonsense about "toilet scrubbing" because you are boring. Really.

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Anonymous wrote:It's legally an agreement, not a binding contract.

Precisely. Thank you.

The two village idiots.

Today I worked on drafting a $500,000,000 loan contract. Guess what it's called? A "Credit Agreement".
Please go get your law degree and then come back here to chat with the big girls.

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Anonymous wrote:It's legally an agreement, not a binding contract.

Precisely. Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, nanny agreements, so long as they state the term of employment and terms of employment, are legally enforceable. Not disagreeing that some people abuse their employees, but people all over these boards say the agreements are not enforceable, when, if written properly, they absolutely are.

There has never been an instance where a nanny contract was enforced. Wages and abuse cases, yes. But duration of contract term, no. Need to quit tomorrow? Done. If you're pissing her off because she can't replace you, she's not giving you an honest reference anyways. Face it and move on.

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Anonymous wrote:Why? This wasn't an interesting thread in the first place.

She's just the laziest troll ever. She goes back and bumps old threads to reignite old arguments, and sadly people fall for it every single time.