How to Hire a Nanny - Softcover

A One-of-a-Kind Guide for All Your Household Help Needs

Hiring someone to watch your children, care for an aging parent or to provide any other assistance you may need around your home can be an incredibly time-consuming and difficult process. Making sure you comply with all of the employment, hiring, payroll and tax regulations, as well as just being a good employer, is crucial in making this relationship work.

How to Hire a Nanny provides guidance from the nation's leading expert on household help-Guy Maddalone. For more than 20 years, Guy has assisted countless families with finding the right help to meet their needs. In this book, he provides you the same advice and walks you through the entire process of being an employer of a nanny or other household employee. You'll find help on topics ranging from forming a work agreement to determining appropriate wages to managing payroll and taxes. How to Hire a Nanny covers everything you need to make the hiring and employing process easy and hassle-free.

"Guy Maddalone has done it again. After many hours of hard work, he has created an important tool for household employers. Families should review the contents of this book before hiring an employee. They will find a wealth of information to help make the working relationship in their home a success."
-Annie Davis, president, Alliance of Professional Nannies Association, and president, Annie's Nannies, Seattle, WA

"In a comprehensive guide, Guy Maddalone has compiled all the information a household employer needs to properly manage anyone working in the home. He covers the range of domestic help from hiring one nanny to employing a full staff. With practical information and accurate facts, How to Hire a Nanny will be a valuable resource and handy tool for all household employers and employees."
-Wendy Sachs, president, The Philadelphia Nanny Network, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

Guy Maddalone is founder and CEO of GTM Household Employment Experts?, which offers household payroll, human resources, and employee benefits services. Recognized in the United States household employment industry as the national expert, Maddalone has been operating businesses that attend to household employment for twenty-two years.

Maddalone founded GTM in 1991 to specialize in household employment-beginning with eldercare providers, nannies, and private-service professionals. He evolved the business to include all household employment professions and more than three hundred referral partners throughout the United States. A New England Nanny, a faction of GTM, is a nanny agency that Maddalone has operated for fifteen years, placing thousands of child care providers and nannies throughout upstate New York. GTM is also the nation's premier household payroll and tax service, managing more than $250 million in payroll each year.

Maddalone conducts educational seminars throughout the country on the household employment industry, household human resources, household payroll taxes, IRS audits, tax compliance, and dependent care services for corporate employers. He is also a work/life dependent care consultant to the General Electric Company, a licensed health and life insurance agent in New York, and a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Involved with several prominent business organizations, including the executive training programs for Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) and Inc. Magazine, Birthing of Giants, and as president of the Albany Chapter of the Young Entrepreneur's Organization, Maddalone also contributes greatly to the community in which he lives-from coaching youth sports teams, mentoring local college entrepreneurs, and giving to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Maddalone is also heavily involved with industry associations, such as Alliance of Professional Nanny Agencies, International Nanny Association, and serves on many committees. The eldest son of thirteen children, the importance of family is integral to Maddalone. He and his wife, Diane, reside in upstate New York with their three children.