[PhillyG]

Day care centres near me already have their staff on shifts, or at least some people working part time and starting later than others, so that they can cover the extra couple of hours that parents doing a 9-5 would need to be able to do those hours + the journey from day care to their work and back. If they gave their staff less hours each, that would simply mean they'd need to employ more staff to give the same service.

[seanmcdirmid]

Daycare centers where I live are already stretched thin with staffing. It is already becoming less accessible because they simply can’t hire enough workers, anyone who wants to work full time can easily do that. Minimum per kid staffing rules mean that the staffing problem can’t be solved by increasing productivity.

The only way they could employ more staff is by drastically increasing pay, but then daycare becomes even less accessible than it already is. It’s a huge mess that is probably unrelated to this proposal, but an excuse to go to 4 day a week schedules (because parents can fill in for 3) would probably be taken quickly.