DCM Changes Schedule for the Week on Day of Payment!

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That is one of the things that should be in the contract when you agreed to the part time schedule. When days can change due to schedule changes at work it is up to you how flexible you want to be. If the change in days doesn't matter then that works fine and pay stays the same anyways. If extra days are scheduled and then cancelled that is when you refer back to your contract. Personally in this case it appears that you should only be budgeting for an income of the minimum 3 days and anything over that is a bonus and not something you should have planned to use - just something nice to get when it happened.

You will need to change your contract to include pay for any extra days scheduled. What you are going to find though is that the parent will only schedule three days and add the extra days at the last minute as needed to avoid unnecessary payments so it won't matter in the end if you change the contract and it will limit your ability to plan for when you will have extra kids.

I guess it comes down to whether you want to know in advance what days you will have extra kids. If you charge for what is booked beyond the three days the mom will move to last minute schedule changes. If you let it go if not used she will give you a longer heads up she may need that day.