The obligations of an employer

As a parent, you have a responsibility towards your child to find him or her the best home care possible.
As an employer, you also have a responsibility to your nanny: of course you must pay her, and provide pleasant working conditions, but in addition you must repay payroll remittances and ensure compliance with various reporting formalities.
We help you meet these obligations, by guiding you through your paperwork.

Planning the adminstrative process

This process will require some time and energy commitments from you but they are useful skills to have in any case.

At the time of hiring, you will need to:
- Obtain your new nanny's social insurance number
- Ask her to fill out a TD1, Personal Tax Credits Return
- Check with local authorities or your EC to know the support you can get
- Register with the Worker's Compensation body in your province
- You may also wish to contact your insurance company and inform them 

At the end of each month, you will:
- Pay your nanny (can be bi-weekly),
- Declare her earnings to the CRA
- Provide a payslip.

Don't forget that you will also need to provide your nanny with a T4 slip so that she can file her taxes. You are required to submit this to her (2 copies) by the end of February. 

The always resourceful Urban Daddy offers some advice on why not to hire a nanny under-the-table, the importance of a contract and the administrative process that goes along with paying the nanny. We highly recommend consulting his blog.

The procedures to be observed during the employment relationship

Maybe (certainly!), these formalities will seem heavy. However, it is necessary to respect them, because they guarantee a good relationship with your nanny.
Respected obligations, help to avoid many conflicts with the labour board.

Hiring a nanny for the parental employer

When hiring a nanny, you will have to set up a contract, which will be the basis of your relationship. You will also need some checks, notify some organizations... and we will guide you through these efforts.

How to handle the nanny's pay and stat holidays

In drafting the employment contract, salary-related clauses and paid holidays are clearly the most difficult, yet the most important. Calculating pay, make the payment, calculating vacation, statutory holidays,  accounting the absences of your nanny ... all processes with which you will become familiar.

Exceptional occurrences that can come up with a nanny

You want your work contract provides everything, to anticipate every event... unfortunately it's impossible! The unexpected will punctuate your relationship, be it sickness, maternity leave, a work accident, looking for a backup nanny.. These circumstances require your share of additional formalities.

The end of the contract or termination

Your child will grow up and one day the care with his nanny will stop. It is then necessary to break or finish the contract. You can also be brought to firing your nanny for more negative reasons: a disagreement or misconduct, for example.