Quote Originally Posted by paz View Post
.... in the context of an employee employer relationship-if I am employed on a part-time basis I would not continue to receive my full time pay`....
She sent you this as argument for paying you less?

I would reply that she is not an employer ~ she is purchasing a service!

If she buys a membership to a gym ~ the fee is based on a monthly 'rate' and she pays for that membership whether she goes 3 times a week or 3 times a day cause she is paying for the 'membership' in the gym. Is she wants a pay as you go membership at the gym it will actually cost her MORE that if she just bought a monthly membership which is why most people just opt for the monthly option.

If she is renting an apartment and she goes away on vacation for 2 weeks and is not 'using it' the landlord does not credit her two weeks of 'rent' because she is paying to ensure the space is secured for her upon her return and if she does NOT pay her rent she will return to find an eviction notice

Bell Canada charges her the same basic rate for a landline whether she is home to use her phone are not to ensure the service is 'there for her when she needs it' .... if she talks one month for 60 hours and the next month drops down to 110 minutes Bell does not 'drop her rate' cause she is now part time phone user?

I could go on and on but you get my point ~ she is comparing apples and oranges here!

If my employer dropped my hours down to part time nope they are not obligate to continue to pay me full time wages ~ but the fact remains I am free to find another job to offset the lost income which might result in me no longer be available for the hours they were offering and termination of my agreement with that person So while she is free to request a change from full time to part time hours YOU do not have to accept that ~ you will find someone else who is willing to attend full time and pay you the service you need.

As I said it is clients like HER that create the scarcity of 'school aged programming' .... seriously what is the 'incentive' to offer this service to people who do not even GET what they are asking someone to do ~ forgo income that a full time child would allow them?

Heck the school boards have the SPACE to offer these programs so there should not be any 'issue' with finding before and after school care but the fact is that most DO NOT offer it because parents are not willing to PAY ENOUGH for it to attract employees willing to work the wonky split shift where you basically end up working a measly 6 hours a day from 6am - 9am and 3pm - 6 pm but you are 'stuck' with 6 hours in the middle which is not enough time to go anywhere are do much once you factor in 'travel time' back and forth to work and so forth ~ it gets old fast and people constantly 'quit' and than the schools have issues with staffing so they just do not offer it!

The basically want to pay like $1-2 an hour and they even bitch about that over their $5 latte :roll: