Maternity leave used to be 6 weeks. Now it is 12, and most parents milk it to the max. Actually my part time rate is quite simple. I have a 3 day minimum. What prompted me to add the statement on the part time care was: I had a family that was here Mon Thurs Fri, everytime there was a Monday holiday, she conveniently change her Mon to Tues, hence her getting an extra day and me not getting my holiday pay. I put a stop to that by putting in this policy, and they dropped me which was fine. They were a pain in the ass and challenged me on everything. Glad to have them bite the dust.

Here we pretty much have to have a part time rate too. I know things work different in different areas.

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