Hi everyone,
I recently redid my contract and I added 6 personal/sick days paid per year- but now I feel kind of quilty, I haven't had to hand it out yet but curious if any of you have
paid vacation or personal/sick paid days!
thanks
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Hi everyone,
I recently redid my contract and I added 6 personal/sick days paid per year- but now I feel kind of quilty, I haven't had to hand it out yet but curious if any of you have
paid vacation or personal/sick paid days!
thanks
I have 5 paid personal days, no one complained.
I have 7 paid personal days and 10 paid vacation days...no complaints here, but they all started with that when they signed on with me(well I increased the personal days from 5 to 7 last year, but that was a small increase). I guess it depends what the norm is in your area more than anything.
I get 10 paid sick days, 10 paid personal days and 2 weeks vacation paid. No one has questioned it.
I already have 10 paid vacation days but never had personal/sick days, as they never paid if I took a day off.
thanks ladies for your input:)
I have 3 weeks paid holiday , and 5 paid personal days but sick days are unpaid.
I also have 3 weeks paid vacation and 5 paid sick days :) No one has ever said anything negative about it.
What area are you guys in if you dont mind me asking? Just wondering because I have no sick days and no holidays so I am wondering if I should change this when I update my contract to.
Thank you
As its not the norm in my area, I do not charge for personal days or vacation. However, to compensate this I did do a rate increase in january for all new clients. this worked out beneficially for me as i am losing 3 dck in september to kindergarten so all new clients will be at higher rate.
I am in Alberta, just north of Calgary. I have 10 paid vacation days and 4 paid personal days in the calendar year. I think that is normal, and have not had anyone question it.
From what I have gathered in my area, you can charge the higher end of the fee scale if you do not get paid for vacation days, etc. I am right in the middle of the fee scale, and that is because I account for the fact that I will have paid days off.
I have 3 paid personal days, no pay for my vacations.
Hmmm maybe I should think about redoing my contracts as well when they are up..... I have no sick/personal days or paid holidays.
I have 7 paid sick days and 2 weeks paid vacation
I don't have any either. I think mainly because I am a new provider and don't want anything to turn someone off when I am looking for clients but also because when I was a parent looking for childcare I did not agree with daycare providers asking for this because we would have to find/pay for alternate care. I don't know. It sounds like it is becoming the norm though.
Most parents have enough vacation/family days that they can manage between them and don't have to hire someone else. Some also have grandparents or other family members they can call on in emergencies. The ones who do not have any of these options don't choose me because they know right up front that they pay when I am closed. I almost didn't put any paid closed days in my contract either when I started because my experience when my son was in daycare was through an agency and we did not have to pay when the provider took a day off. Thankfully, I talked to many providers in my neighbourhood before starting and found out that most of them had paid vacation and sick days...so I put it in there and had no big problem finding families who were fine with it. However, if nobody else in your neighbourhood does it, it might be more of a problem.
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