Outside Regulations?

[Unregistered]

thanks. She is licensed and that is why we have to pay her for 36 hrs of babysitting even though we only have her babysit for 12 hrs... because she is licensed we have to pay a minimum of 144 a week regardless of how many hrs we take the kids unless it goes over the 36 hrs then it is at a rate of 2 dollars a kid per hour.

[Cat Herder]

thanks. She is licensed and that is why we have to pay her for 36 hrs of babysitting even though we only have her babysit for 12 hrs... because she is licensed we have to pay a minimum of 144 a week regardless of how many hrs we take the kids unless it goes over the 36 hrs then it is at a rate of 2 dollars a kid per hour.

Yeah, that is pretty common. My clients must do the same BUT they are all here almost 50 hours a week each. I am open 10 hours a day, there are kids here until 5 minutes of closing and all are in the drive as I open each morning.

The State limits the number of kids I can keep (6), my portion of the monthly bills stay the same...so divide the bills by the number of kids allowed and you have the rate I charge. I bet your provider is doing the same unless she is not married and must charge more.

I do hope you get things smoothed out soon. There is a perfect provider out there for every family.