Posted on 08/31/2011 8:42:39 AM PDT by chessplayer
How will parents react when they find out they will be expected to provide workers' compensation benefits, rest and meal breaks and paid vacation time for…babysitters? Dinner and a movie night may soon become much more complicated.
Under AB 889, household “employers” (aka “parents”) who hire a babysitter on a Friday night will be legally obligated to pay at least minimum wage to any sitter over the age of 18 (unless it is a family member), provide a substitute caregiver every two hours to cover rest and meal breaks, in addition to workers' compensation coverage, overtime pay, and a meticulously calculated timecard/paycheck.
(Excerpt) Read more at theunion.com ...
You have got to be kidding!!! There goes the job market for teens and college students!
Rest and meal breaks? So parents will have to hire a babysitter to cover for their babysitter?
No doubt the Democrats want babysitters to be unionized by SEIU. That way, sex offenders can be employed to take care of children, as is already happening across the country.
Good grief. Just when you thought there was nothing left for the State of California to interfere with. Truly, the state is bent on suicide. So glad I’m out of there.
California is aptly named the land of fruits and nuts.
How come they don’t have to give their employee’s (baby sitters) a 1099 & fill out a W-2? /s/
This is going to cost a lot of kids their baby sitting jobs.
What stupid Sumbatch wrote this crazy piece of legislation?
More moronicism from Moronfornia. Why do I live here? That said, this law is easily skirted. What are they going to do, send the babysitting police around??? And let some snot kid go run to the authorities that she didn’t get her minimum wage and worker’s comp. paid. Good luck for that twit to ever get hired as a babysitter again.
I personally think any sort of “underground” economy will be subject to regulation and tax. A teen babysitter (I was one for a long time) is asked to babysit for a period of time in exchange for money. The government must feel like it is losing out on the “tax” of such a “job”. Next, teen boys/girls cutting grass in the neighborhood will have the same scrutiny. So will yard sales and craigslist. So will teens who plow driveways and sidewalks of snow. The list can be endless!
No problemo. The beautiful people in California only employ Illegal Aliens as Domestics. Remember Hollywood’s “Academy Award for Best Nanny” BS a few years ago?
Since babysitting is mostly comprised of, watching TV, talking on the phone and raiding the fridge, aren’t they already “on a break”?
“Rest and meal breaks? So parents will have to hire a babysitter to cover for their babysitter?”
YES~!! GO FOR IT, California~!
Show the rest of the world JUST HOW LIBERAL YOU CAN BE
When Texas Secedes to avoid having to pay your bills, I am moving there to become a proud Texan
Why didn’t someone think of this earlier? This is such an earth shattering issue that it must take priority in the CA legislator. Teenage babysitter have been working under antiquated labor laws since the beginning of time.
How about a babysitting license, with a fee? Maybe a government-run babysitting training program? Certification? Just tossing out some ideas for the fruits and nuts to think about. lol.
Don’t forget to give the babysitter a form, so they can state their preference on whether they want to unionize or not.
What is truly annoying with all of this is how it will affect the teens. (I’m NOT saying it’s all about the kids!). My point is that we periodically “employ” older teens and college students for little tasks like weeding, shoveling the driveway etc... The kids are either saving up for a prom, trying to help out with the expense of books/fees, or just want a little money. How crazy is it to take that right away from them. I use to joke with some of them because I called them “self employed capitalists”... guess California actually thought the term was legitimate?
I honestly thought is was from The Onion and not The Union till I read closer.
California is a state full of retards.
Next: The Babysitters Union (Childcare Employees International Union)
This is great news. Californians need to learn the pain that comes with electing politicians with a ‘progressive’ agenda.
Pour it on ‘em, Democrats! You know what’s best for everyone.
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