{"id":124,"date":"2010-10-14T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2014-01-28T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T15:00:05","slug":"california-nanny-gate-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/14\/california-nanny-gate-what-went-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"California Nanny Gate. What went wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in California we\u2019ve had another \u201cNanny Gate\u201d occur that could affect the governor\u2019s race. I\u2019d like to share a few of my thoughts on the subject. Having owned a prominent\u00a0Los Angeles nanny agency<\/a> for many years that only placed \u201clegal\u201d nannies I can say that most families didn\u2019t care about this issue, any more than they cared about paying their nannies \u201con the books\u201d. Families are interested in whether the person will be good for their children.<\/p>\n

In the Meg Whitman case the family hired their housekeeper<\/a> through a well known nanny agency in the Bay Area, Town & Country Resources. From what I\u2019ve read the nanny agency did their job and got the documentation they needed from the housekeeper and no doubt gave the paperwork to the Whitman family.<\/p>\n

What went wrong? The law is clear that employers and nanny agencies<\/a> don\u2019t have to verify the paperwork submitted to them. Thankfully they don\u2019t have to decide if a Social Security card or Green Card is legitimate. Now E-verify is readily available to verify documents, but I don\u2019t believe it was as well established when the housekeeper was hired as it is now.<\/p>\n

My sympathies were with the family until they received the notice from the Social Security Administration saying the SSN didn\u2019t match their employee\u2019s name. That was the red flag. The family didn\u2019t follow up on that and continued to keep the housekeeper employed without asking any questions.<\/p>\n

If it were me, I would have investigated this issue further and since they considered the housekeeper a \u201cmember of the family\u201d I would have done what we do for family\u2014gotten right to work to help her get documentation. The nanny that works for my family for over 13 years now had a work permit that was renewed yearly. Eventually it would no longer be renewed and she would be \u201cillegal\u201d. We contacted an immigration attorney and through a long, arduous process that made it all the way to the Federal 9th<\/sup> Circuit of Appeals. She eventually obtained her Green Card and her life has been changed forever\u2014as has our family\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here in California we\u2019ve had another \u201cNanny Gate\u201d occur that could affect the governor\u2019s race. I\u2019d like to share a few of my thoughts on the subject. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13,5,15,19,6],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiringananny","tag-hire-a-nanny","tag-httpwww-enannysource-comnanniesnanny-jobs-now-aspx","tag-nanny","tag-nanny-gate","tag-httpwww-enannysource-comfind-a-nannychildcare-nannies-aupairs-aspx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enannysource.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}