I don't know any professional nannies who are required to eat only their own food. Seems silly if people can afford a nanny. Why wouldn't they want her to share their food?

The OP started this thread for no reason but to cause a stir.

Most professional nannies bring their own lunches and snacks to work even when their NF's offer their nannies to make themselves at home and eat snacks and food from their fridge.

I bring my own food to work. If for some reason I'm running late and forget to pack a lunch, my bosses have no problem with me making a sandwich and eating a piece of fruit.

Unless you are a live-in or au pair, it's not necessary to be provided meals whether you work 35 hours a week or 55 hours a week.

Anonymous wrote:Every human being has every right to be offended by anything they want. At the same time however, no employer of domestic workers has a right to deny confined domestic workers the ability to eat food if the worker has failed to bring into her workplace (your house), her own food.

No one can dispute that fact.

Not even worth disputing, just laughing at your self-righteous stupidy.

Anonymous wrote:

Though it comes up more often than is necessary on these boards, most professional (or just sensible) nannies DO NOT expect all of their meals to be provided by their employer, and do not see it as a human rights issue that they are required to feed themselves during the day. Yes, there are days when I don't have time/forget a lunch/haven't gone grocery shopping and having the option of making myself food from my employers supplies is a welcome courtesy, but there is no way I would be calling the ACLU over the matter.
As an aside, as a person whose actual human rights are still being violated in a very real, legal way-AKA my marriage is not legally recognized-it is incredibly offensive to compare the two situations. This is where words like entitlement, spoiled and immature start to work their way into the conversation...

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YES! THank you!

Every human being has every right to be offended by anything they want. At the same time however, no employer of domestic workers has a right to deny confined domestic workers the ability to eat food if the worker has failed to bring into her workplace (your house), her own food.

No one can dispute that fact.

Though it comes up more often than is necessary on these boards, most professional (or just sensible) nannies DO NOT expect all of their meals to be provided by their employer, and do not see it as a human rights issue that they are required to feed themselves during the day. Yes, there are days when I don't have time/forget a lunch/haven't gone grocery shopping and having the option of making myself food from my employers supplies is a welcome courtesy, but there is no way I would be calling the ACLU over the matter.
As an aside, as a person whose actual human rights are still being violated in a very real, legal way-AKA my marriage is not legally recognized-it is incredibly offensive to compare the two situations. This is where words like entitlement, spoiled and immature start to work their way into the conversation...

+10000000

Though it comes up more often than is necessary on these boards, most professional (or just sensible) nannies DO NOT expect all of their meals to be provided by their employer, and do not see it as a human rights issue that they are required to feed themselves during the day. Yes, there are days when I don't have time/forget a lunch/haven't gone grocery shopping and having the option of making myself food from my employers supplies is a welcome courtesy, but there is no way I would be calling the ACLU over the matter.
As an aside, as a person whose actual human rights are still being violated in a very real, legal way-AKA my marriage is not legally recognized-it is incredibly offensive to compare the two situations. This is where words like entitlement, spoiled and immature start to work their way into the conversation...

This is absurd. Our contract with our nanny stipulates that she brings her own food and we provide space.

Our reality w/ our nanny is that we often cook for each other, purchase things the other likes, stock the fridge for each other, etc...

I expect to be employing nannies for many years. I will NEVER make it a contractual arrangement to provide meals for them.

Call me whatever you like but I think this is completely ridiculous and those of you insisting on it sound like children. If only to eliminate any of you from ever considering applying for a job with me I will never do this.

Anonymous wrote:So now you are trying to say that an employer must ask her nanny in the morning if she forgot her lunch??? I know some nannies are young but isn't it illegal to hire someone who is only 6 years old or only has the intellectual capacity of a 6 year old?

Cheap shot. You need to do better than that on this forum. Time for you to grow up.

So now you are trying to say that an employer must ask her nanny in the morning if she forgot her lunch??? I know some nannies are young but isn't it illegal to hire someone who is only 6 years old or only has the intellectual capacity of a 6 year old?

Anonymous wrote:Lunch and break time is provided so that employees (domestic or non-domestic) can eat its not a requirement that they be able to go out and buy something. In many blue collar jobs, employees are not allowed to eat or snack while working. There is no requirement that the employer provide the meals for them.

There honestly isn't any reason why a nanny can't bring her lunch. No one has put forward any reason why nannies are somehow unique and cannot make themselves a lunch and put it in a bag.

Of course there's no reason why anyone "can't" bring a lunch to work at your house. If you reread OP, the issue addressed is that you can't allow her to starve for 10-12 hours a day when she doesn't bring her own food. Plain and simple. Which part of that fact don't you understand?

Lunch and break time is provided so that employees (domestic or non-domestic) can eat its not a requirement that they be able to go out and buy something. In many blue collar jobs, employees are not allowed to eat or snack while working. There is no requirement that the employer provide the meals for them.

There honestly isn't any reason why a nanny can't bring her lunch. No one has put forward any reason why nannies are somehow unique and cannot make themselves a lunch and put it in a bag.

Domestic worker employers either provide access to meals OR provide a break time to go out and buy food, just like every job in America.

Anonymous wrote:Nannies have far more flexibility to eat even if they need to bring their lunch than factory or others workers who can not snack on the floor. OP is an idiot.

The person who has no argument resorts to name calling, lol.

Nannies have far more flexibility to eat even if they need to bring their lunch than factory or others workers who can not snack on the floor. OP is an idiot.