Advice on Hiring Domestic Staff
Straight answers on what things cost, what the law requires, and what to ask before you let somebody into your home.
Agency or Gumtree? The Honest Way to Hire a Domestic Worker in Durban
Free classifieds hand every part of hiring to you, including the checks most households cannot do. When an agency is worth it, and what to ask one.
Read ArticleHow We Vet Domestic Workers: Inside Our 5-Step Screening
Only about one in eight applicants makes it through. What each of our five screening steps checks, and why it matters before anyone enters your home.
Read ArticleWhat Does a Domestic Worker Cost in Durban? A Straight Answer
It is the first question almost everyone asks, and most answers online are uselessly vague. Here is how the cost is actually put together.
Read ArticleEmploying a Domestic Worker: Contracts, UIF and Leave
Employing someone in your home makes you an employer, with the obligations that come with it. Most households get caught out by the same handful of things.
Read Article12 Questions Worth Asking When You Interview a Nanny
Most nanny interviews are too polite to be useful. These questions get at how someone behaves when the job is hard, not how well they interview.
Read ArticleLive-In or Live-Out? Choosing the Right Arrangement
This decision gets made on cost more often than it should. Availability, privacy and what you are willing to take on as an employer matter just as much.
Read ArticleNeed Help in Durban?
Tell us what your household needs and we will find someone suited to it.
