Quote Originally Posted by playfelt View Post
How do you distinguish between a sick day and a vacation day for the client. Just as the parents who have "sick" days at work will tell the employer they are home sick when they are really entertaining company or cleaning their house or taking a spa day. You may have to streamline things to have 5 days no pay and ALL other days are half fee. The half fee would cover sick, vacation, grandma visiting days, etc. I know you didn't ask for critique but I am really asking a question as to how you clarify the difference with your clients. As I see the dilemma the parent paid when they attended and didn't pay for 5 days off and didn't pay when they were home "sick" which is all legal by your contract. What is the definition of "sick". Sometimes we all feel too sick to go to work.
Thank you Playfelt. Your feedback is appreciated. I guess my answer to your question is very simple. I technically I can't. I guess I would expect my clients to be honest with me in regards to sick so I can let my other clients know. I suppose if a client were to try "calling in sick" on days when gramma wanted to care for the child instead and the child wasn't really sick I would confront the parent if it happened enough times.

Quite honestly, if I suspected this issue I would re policy that client with a 5 day sick only policy and go from there. I suppose I wouldn't really want a client like this as part of my care and would work on edgeing them out or just terminated.