A One-of-a-Kind Guide for All Your Household Help Needs Hiring someone to watch your children, care for an aging parent or to provide any other assistance you may need around your home can be an incredibly time-consuming and difficult process. Making sure you comply with all of the employment, hiring, payroll and tax regulations, as well as just being a good employer, is crucial in making this relationship work. How to Hire a Nanny provides guidance from the nation's leading expert on household help-Guy Maddalone. For more than 20 years, Guy has assisted countless families with finding the right help to meet their needs. In this book, he provides you the same advice and walks you through the entire process of being an employer of a nanny or other household employee. You'll find help on topics ranging from forming a work agreement to determining appropriate wages to managing payroll and taxes. How to Hire a Nanny covers everything you need to make the hiring and employing process easy and hassle-free. "Guy Maddalone has done it again. After many hours of hard work, he has created an important tool for household employers. Families should review the contents of this book before hiring an employee. They will find a wealth of information to help make the working relationship in their home a success." -Annie Davis, president, Alliance of Professional Nannies Association, and president, Annie's Nannies, Seattle, WA "In a comprehensive guide, Guy Maddalone has compiled all the information a household employer needs to properly manage anyone working in the home. He covers the range of domestic help from hiring one nanny to employing a full staff. With practical information and accurate facts, How to Hire a Nanny will be a valuable resource and handy tool for all household employers and employees." -Wendy Sachs, president, The Philadelphia Nanny Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
This was the best book ever, it gave you every possible scenario, answered every question before you asked it and even helped me create applications, job descriptions and a work agreement. wonderful tool!
A Must Have for Families with Nannies
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This book is terrific! I am a nanny with more than 14 years experience and I advise parents and nannies on many issues involving the nanny/family relationship. This book spells out-in concrete terms-the legalities of having in home employees. It also addresses both sides of many issues including, vacations, contracts, benefits, preformance reviews and much more. It is an essential tool for any parent who wants to be a good employer, a key to keeping a nanny long term. The nanny/parent relationship is one of the most difficult employer/employee relationships out there and this book lets you address issues before they happen. Communication is the key! It has lots of great real examples as well as an appendix with loads of useful forms and other great information. A must have for anyone with household help! Sue Downey Founding Board member of National Association for Nanny Care
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