According to links I've seen on other sites, Citizens Information say the max you can deduct from a live in Au Pair for accomm/food/bills is €54 per week!!!
So 30 hour week at €9.15 per hour less €54 = €220 per week to the Au Pair. And thats not including registering as an Employer, PRSI etc etc.
Something is going to give on this
On the one hand :- http://www.thejournal.ie/au-pair-employment-law-2648083-Mar2016/
and on the other :- http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...ld-destroy-industry-says-agency-34527421.html
It's gone time that some employers apparently treated au pairs like indentured slaves and paid them properly for their work. To me the bed & board charge is akin to my employer deducting fuel, tax and insurance from my wages because I drive his truck or charging me for my desk and the space it occupies as well as the list, heat and cleaning my office needs if I'm a desk-jockey.
Any help or advice is appreciated. Thank you
Canysant1
If you employ someone in your home to mind you children for a fixed rate an hour
You pay a fixed rate per hour
Plus 4 weeks paid holiday off per year
Plus pay all bank holidays
You need a contract
Do their tax returns
And yes pay the employers PRSI too
And no - there are no expenses you can claim off In tax
I do personally use an au pair. I pay her €120/week for 30 hours work spread over 4 days. I have 3 kids, she brings 2 of them to school in the morning along with the baby, she returns home, looks after the baby who then goes down for a nap for 2 hours and my au pair then does whatever she likes. She picks the 2 older ones up at 1.30, and looks after them for 3 hours as well as the baby. The only housework I ask her to do is make sure the dishwasher isn't completely full when I get home and that it's not a complete mess but if she's out and about and it doesn't get done, that's ok too. I pay for her language classes, would pay for exercise classes or whatever for her if she'd take them but she has no interest. She has her own area of the house with bathroom and shower and own entrance, has friends over all the time and generally seems to be having a whale of a time. She gets all her food paid for and is very fond of the kids and they her. In fact she's so happy, she's going to stay another year.
I pay her extra for any babysitting, €8 an hour, which usually just involves sitting watching tv as the kids would be asleep. Even an hour where I've to run to the shops or am delayed coming home, she gets extra, we never take advantage.
To rent a room in my area of Dublin would be an absolute minimum €600 for her set-up and she'd have to cover all the bills too on top of that, probably another 100 a month.
I pay her for her holidays and sick leave and also for our holidays if she's supposed to be working. And I don't expect her to mind 3 kids all by herself fulltime during holidays, my husband and I will try and cover that with a few camps and grandparents thrown in for good measure.
Her English has improved vastly since she came here and she really loves our country.
Sorry for the detail but I'm trying to give you a feeling of exactly what the situation is like. There's nothing cruel or unusual about it.
If I were to pay for a live-out child-minder, to do what she does, it would cost me probably 1200 a month and I'd have to rent out the room to someone else. Plus, I'd probably get a lot more housework done as I'd make use of every ounce of downtime. So financially, I wouldn't be much better or worse off. But I like having my au-pair around, it's good to have an extra pair of hands if needs be and I like to see her enjoying herself and improving herself and she's a lovely girl having the time of her life...albeit with a bit of the hard work that is child-minding thrown in. And I don't underestimate it, child-minding is VERY HARD.
There are lots of like minded people like my husband and I out there, just trying to manage.
What I'm wondering is how exactly does this ruling affect me if I do nothing and she does nothing?
When does she go to language classes?
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