Household employers in the District of Columbia will have new, important obligations to their household employees in 2015.
Household employers in the District of Columbia will have new, important obligations to their household employees in 2015.
At Thanksgiving last year, The Crawford Family got together as so many families do on this day to share a traditional meal, spend time together and talk about where they are and where they want to go.
Topics: housekeeper, household payroll tax
The keys to a nanny's success in the workplace all revolve around attitude. The "secret sauce" all successful professional nannies bring to their workplace includes the following attitudes:
Topics: nanny job satisfaction, nanny
The growing national movement towards aging in place is challenging many families. As noted recently in the New York Times, "Aging in community is important for preserving the quality of life for older adults and providing stability to neighborhoods."
Topics: elder care, senior home care
Topics: nanny bonus, nanny background screening
April 2015 Update
The survey referenced below is now closed and published. HWS encourages you to review the results.
The INA reports the following:
Key findings include:
Topics: nanny salary, nanny benefits
I recently attended Nannypalooza in Philadelphia where I was asked by a nanny in attendance if I could coach her on how to speak to her employer about being paid on the books. Immediately several other nannies joined the conversation, sharing that this is one of the most difficult conversations to initiate with their employers.
Topics: nanny off the books, nanny job satisfaction, nanny taxes
The Private Care Association, the voice of private duty home care, met in earlier this month in Orlando, FL and invited the US Department of Labor to discuss Joint Employment and Changes in the Companionship Exemption with its members. A guest appearance was made by Michael Hancock, Assistant Administrator for Policy, Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor and Melissa Murphy, Senior Attorney, Office of the Solicitor U.S. Department of Labor. Mr. Hancock and Ms. Murphy addressed an anxious crowd of almost 200 independent homecare staffing agencies to discus joint employment, the expiration of the Companionship Exemption for home health agencies and stepped up enforcement by the DOL in 2015 related to the enforcement of the Fair Labor and Standards Act (FLSA).
Topics: elder care, aging in place, senior care, nanny background screening
Topics: new york household employment, New York household payroll
When families hire a nanny, they enter the relationship with the best of intentions to establish a mutually rewarding long term relationship between the nanny and the family. You have gone to a lot of effort to locate this nanny, what actions can you take as the nanny employer to insure your mutual satisfaction? What are the keys to nanny job satisfaction?
Topics: nanny job satisfaction, nanny retention