One of the responsibilities I take on as an Estate Management EA is to handle the admin for scheduling staff and submitting their timesheets for approval. At any given time I have to track staff at over a dozen locations throughout the country, which can makes this a very time consuming task.
As of January 1, 2022 all domestic worker employers in Chicago will be required to provide a written contract to their workers. Below are comprehensive sample contracts for home cleaners, nannies / childcare workers, and caregivers created by Arise Chicago. PRO MEMBER CONTENT
Of all of the things that need to be streamlined and organized, communication should be at the top of any Estate Manager’s list. Slack pulls a huge portion of minor texts and emails out of your inbox and into a repository for the entire team to reference and creates a platform for targeted group communication. Here’s how to set up Slack for your team. PRO MEMBER CONTENT
Recent headlines revealing that Jeffrey Epsteins’s House Manager and Staff had been instructed, and bound by non-disclosure agreements, to share nothing of the activities going on in the home brought the topic of NDA’s to the forefront of conversation.
Under a new rule for the City of Chicago that takes effect Jan. 1, anyone who hires a domestic worker must provide them with a written contract in their primary language, as requested by the worker, regardless of their status as an employee or independent contractor.