Childminders Club: Holiday for part time minders

[HappyMumofWhooo]

Hi, me again, with another question.......

just having a think about my contracts atm.
Can anyone tell me what they think is reasonable in terms of holiday for someone only working part time?

I think NCMA say 4 weeks paid, but that's for full time isn't it?

I was thinking of saying 2 weeks paid, and up to 2 weeks unpaid (I will be working 3 days per week) does that sound about right? too much??

really not sure.

HB a week is a week whether it F/T or P/T

If you work 3 days the a week is 3 days off

So if you wanted 4 weeks that would only be 12 days off

I charge 2 weeks unpaid and 2 weeks paid - but I know I'm very generous

Thanks katymac, might go for 4 weeks paid then, as that would only be 12 days. I would really like some time off during the summer holidays.

If you take a child term time only, can you charge anything during school holidays or would you only be paid if you took your full 4 weeks at that time?

Thankyou for the policies btw, they are great

I charge a retainer for holidays - I wouldn't do a TT only child.....so not sure - sorry

OK, thanks

Do you guys all charge something for your holidays?

I don't charge for my holidays but charge families 50% fees when they take theirs.

I however charge during school holidays even if the chil is TT only, but I always stress that I'm available during that time.

I was thinking about this last night, how does 4 weeks holiday for me sound (so 12 days as working 3 a week) charged at 50%. I'm not sure about unpaid holiday really, I think 4 weeks should do me fine, 2 weeks in the summer holidays, 1 at Christmas, 1 at Easter.
I was going to charge them full rate during their holidays but is that excessive?
I thought for term time only I would say 50% of normal rate, I don't think I will be able to afford to do tt only as I'll be on WFTC........

I have two weeks off for summer holiday, and two weeks off over Christmas, and I don't charge parents anything. I charge them half fee for their holidays (unless they take them same time as me). I do have very occasional extra days off, but for good reasons (dd's graduation!) and obviously don't charge then either.

I'm interested in how parents react to being charged if their childminder is on holiday. When I'm off, if parents can't take holiday themselves and haven't got family to help, then they need to pay someone else. It would make it jolly expensive if they still had to pay me!

I thought exactly the same re. parents having to pay another person to care for their child so I don't charge for my holidays either - I do however, charge full fees for any days child has off, whether that be for holiday, sickness or otherwise.