Anonymous
Post 04/19/2013 14:24     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Government Affairs Committee shares information only, absolutely NO lobbying activity takes place. Individual members are welcome to lobby for their own point of view.

http://nanny.org/governmental-affairs

Interesting. Would the INA controlling nanny agencies allow INA nannies to lobby on behalf of INA, assuming of course that they had majority support of INA nannies?



Is this question taboo, or what?

Forget it. Not touching that one.

INA board members?
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2013 18:02     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Government Affairs Committee shares information only, absolutely NO lobbying activity takes place. Individual members are welcome to lobby for their own point of view.

http://nanny.org/governmental-affairs

Interesting. Would the INA controlling nanny agencies allow INA nannies to lobby on behalf of INA, assuming of course that they had majority support of INA nannies?



Is this question taboo, or what?

Forget it. Not touching that one.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2013 14:07     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Government Affairs Committee shares information only, absolutely NO lobbying activity takes place. Individual members are welcome to lobby for their own point of view.

http://nanny.org/governmental-affairs

Interesting. Would the INA controlling nanny agencies allow INA nannies to lobby on behalf of INA, assuming of course that they had majority support of INA nannies?



Is this question taboo, or what?
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2013 12:19     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Government Affairs Committee shares information only, absolutely NO lobbying activity takes place. Individual members are welcome to lobby for their own point of view.

http://nanny.org/governmental-affairs

Interesting. Would the INA controlling nanny agencies allow INA nannies to lobby on behalf of INA, assuming of course that they had majority support of INA nannies?


Anonymous
Post 04/18/2013 10:40     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Government Affairs Committee shares information only, absolutely NO lobbying activity takes place. Individual members are welcome to lobby for their own point of view.

http://nanny.org/governmental-affairs

Interesting. Would the INA controlling nanny agencies allow INA nannies to lobby on behalf of INA, assuming of course that they had majority support of INA nannies?

They need a committee meeting to figure out how to weasel out of this one.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2013 09:29     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:Government Affairs Committee shares information only, absolutely NO lobbying activity takes place. Individual members are welcome to lobby for their own point of view.

http://nanny.org/governmental-affairs

Interesting. Would the INA controlling nanny agencies allow INA nannies to lobby on behalf of INA, assuming of course that they had majority support of INA nannies?
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2013 08:32     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Government Affairs Committee shares information only, absolutely NO lobbying activity takes place. Individual members are welcome to lobby for their own point of view.

http://nanny.org/governmental-affairs
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2013 07:37     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
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Anonymous
Post 04/17/2013 17:27     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:What exactly is the ina lobbying for?
If you were more forthcoming, maybe that would help reduce the confusion here. Or maybe your lobbying agenda is clearly posted on your website? Please advise.

INA has no "legislative" committee?

Anonymous
Post 04/17/2013 17:23     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
What exactly is the ina lobbying for?
If you were more forthcoming, maybe that would help reduce the confusion here. Or maybe your lobbying agenda is clearly posted on your website? Please advise.
webbkathy
Post 04/17/2013 17:19     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This post isn't about who benifits most because in a live-in situation (it's the employers of course ), or about freedom to choose to leave a job if you don't like it. It's about the overtime laws applied to live-in's. They are incredibly unfair to workers. Stating no pay for 8 hours, even though some nannies are technically working, and then no OT after 40 hrs. Why???


Anyone? Kathy and Susan?

What exactly is the INA lobby doing?



The INA doesn't have a lobby, and to my personal knowledge never has. Lobbyists charge $$$, and lots of it. And I will restate - the laws you take exception to were written 11 years before the INA even existed - I cannot follow your logic that somehow makes the INA responsible for them?

The INA does, however, take the time to respectfully inform nannies of their rights under law: http://nanny.org/nannyrights
webbkathy
Post 04/17/2013 17:07     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:Many of our employers and nanny agencies have professional lobbyists advocating for these loopholes in the law. No one is advocating for nanny rights or protection. No one that I am aware of. Someone please correct me, with all details, if I am wrong.

This is one of the many problems with the ina, International NANNY Association. Their attorneys and lobbyists are advocating for laws that financially benefit nanny agencies and their clients, not for the nannies.



Poster, can you please point to one attorney or lobbyist that is advocating for laws that financially benefit nanny agencies and their clients? And precisely how the INA, founded in 1985, had anything to do with the Fair Labor Standards Act as amended in 1974.

I realize you have an axe to grind, and an anonymous message board is very attractive, but at least work from facts.

And OP, FYI Maryland requires OT for live in or live out over 40 hours. Several states, not just NY, have overtime protections of at least some live in domestic workers.

The Department of Labor, under the Obama administration, has made some proposed rules changes for domestic service workers minimum wage and overtime coverages under the FLSA that have been sitting in limbo since December 2011. And these Administration proposals do not propose doing away with this. That would be a good place to start if you want to influence this rule.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2013 16:21     Subject: Re:I know it's a law, but why?
Anonymous wrote:
Should babysitters not get paid for the hours the kids are sleeping? If MB & DB go for a romantic night at hotel and hire someone to stay overnight from 11pm-7am- they should work for free right?


Yeah babysitters who watching the kids when they are sleeping most of the night do make a lot less than nannies who are responsible for them during the day.

The difference is that the base pay lower because the kids are sleeping most of the time.


When you are called an infant care specialist, you are paid $250-$300 per 24 hr.
Take note, nannies.


Anonymous
Post 04/17/2013 16:16     Subject: Re:I know it's a law, but why?
Should babysitters not get paid for the hours the kids are sleeping? If MB & DB go for a romantic night at hotel and hire someone to stay overnight from 11pm-7am- they should work for free right?


Yeah babysitters who watching the kids when they are sleeping most of the night do make a lot less than nannies who are responsible for them during the day.

The difference is that the base pay lower because the kids are sleeping most of the time.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2013 16:13     Subject: I know it's a law, but why?
Being on call is not the same as working around the clock. I might want to go to the gym (pp, does that make you happier?) at 5am before the kids wake up, but I can't because I am on duty, required to be there to watch over child.

Should babysitters not get paid for the hours the kids are sleeping? If MB & DB go for a romantic night at hotel and hire someone to stay overnight from 11pm-7am- they should work for free right?

Live-ins actually have a lower base pay. And the laws advocate for the employers to keep it that way.