Originally Posted by SeanMc123:
There have been some really inconsiderate and ignorant posts in here. Reasonable responses would be nice with regards to anyone who may work later hours at their employer (or may have to be in earlier than the average employee.) If you know anything about the multiple facets of businesses and the demands they have put on their work force, you'd know that many fields of industry are requiring employees to come in as early as 6AM, they are requiring employees to stay longer than a normal 8 hour shift, and they are opening up later shifts such as a 2nd or 3rd shift to meet their production needs. Now regardless of what I have heard "Some daycares can't handle the costs," "people should hire someone to take care of their kids".... no. If you are going to open a daycare, you open it to meet the demands of your entire community's work demands or you don't open one up. If you only have one customer/two customers per 2nd or 3rd shift, you keep one person on to accomodate those who are striving to keep our economy flowing and so hard working individuals can get the child care they need. Just like the customers who work later shifts, the daycares should employ staff to work later shifts. It may not be the intention, but it is inadvertently discriminate of those who don't work a 'typical' 9-5 shift.
This has GOT to be a joke.
If not, get over it. You chose to have children. You chose that job. I choose to not spend 18 hours a day working to accommodate that schedule. We all have choices.
That being said, there ARE providers that are open odd hours, holidays, even weekends. Call your local state resource and referral agency and ask for provider recommendations for care outside of traditional hours.
If I hired someone, at $12/hour to watch second shift children, I would have to have her on at 2:30 pm (as later would put me over ratio). I would have to pay her until 11:30pm. That's 9 hours, or $108/day. NOT including the taxes that employers match, or the insurance (disability, unemployment, comp, liability), or the food, or the utilities. I would have to MAKE probably $175-200/day to make it cost effective. If I only had TWO second shift kids (as you state, even with low numbers we SHOULD have care available) I would have to charge each family $87.50/DAY to be able to afford it.
No way a business can take a loss to offer a service.