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Fiddlesticks 08:05 AM 02-13-2017
Originally Posted by Unregistered:
You might have a different attitude if you were the one that had to take a day off from work to stay home. Don't act like there aren't situations that aren't fair on both ends. My daycare provider just took three weeks off for maternity leave. A week before that she took her 2nd "paid vacation" of the year. We get two weeks "off" where we don't have to pay but who gets FOUR weeks of vacation every year!? So we have to take our week off when she takes hers.. there unfair advantages and disadvantages on both ends... but just because her town has a snow day doesn't mean someone's boss doesn't expect them to be at work
She took three weeks for maternity leave? Consider yourself lucky, I myself took 12 weeks with each of my children, and I encourage all providers to never take less than 6 weeks. I didn't have the parents pay me for the full 12 weeks, but I did raise my rates prior to the maternity leave to cover the loss, so they effectively paid for it... Every year I am closed of 12 paid days, and 30 unpaid days (again, I charge a higher fee to cover these days, I feel they are paid, the parents feel good about not paying at the time.) which equals 8 weeks and 2 days closed per year. Would you feel better if your provider did not charge you for days she was closed, but instead raised your rates $5/day and did not give you two weeks off that you did not have to pay for? That is what I encourage all providers to do to end this constant bickering.
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