A GUIDE TO DEVELOPING A WORK AGREEMENT WITH A CHILDCARE PROVIDER

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Are you planning to hire someone to provide childcare services in your home? Do you already employ someone to provide childcare services and want to improve your employment arrangements?

If so, this guide will help you:  

  • Focus your initial discussions with the person you’re hiring or organize conversations with the childcare provider working for you now
  • Strengthen clear and respectful communication between you and your employee
  • Develop a clear work agreement that specifies the relevant terms of employment as well as records other important information

In this guide, the term childcare provider will be used to describe the person who is paid to care for the child/children in your home. You may use another name for such a person. The most frequently used job titles for this work in the United States are childcare provider, nanny, caregiver, babysitter, or au pair.  

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