Chanelle
29-02-2012, 02:00 PM
Hello All
Im just after a little background information about working with an assistant.
I currenty have 6 children on a waiting list and 4 of these are siblings of current children I look after. I have a full time space in the daytime but cant take the first child on the list as I dont have space after school from 330 as I am full from that time onward ... I also have a parent who is expecting a child and another sibling who will be due to start school next September.
So I have decided that I may take on an assistant.
What I need to know is how things work employment wise, contracts, if they are entitled to holiday pay if term time only? Pay? etc ... I really have no experience on this and no fellow childminders I know employ assistants so would appreciate any advice.
Also she is a member of a union which has also flagged up concerns..
Thanks in advance
Im just after a little background information about working with an assistant.
I currenty have 6 children on a waiting list and 4 of these are siblings of current children I look after. I have a full time space in the daytime but cant take the first child on the list as I dont have space after school from 330 as I am full from that time onward ... I also have a parent who is expecting a child and another sibling who will be due to start school next September.
So I have decided that I may take on an assistant.
What I need to know is how things work employment wise, contracts, if they are entitled to holiday pay if term time only? Pay? etc ... I really have no experience on this and no fellow childminders I know employ assistants so would appreciate any advice.
Also she is a member of a union which has also flagged up concerns..
Thanks in advance