Low wages are sending many workers out of the sector just as the demand for services is increasing
Earlier this month, Tracy Saarikoski, the executive director of Discovery Early Learning and Care, a daycare in Sudbury, Ont.,of having to call families and tell them there wouldn’t be care available on Monday. Between educators quitting and others calling in sick, there almost wasn’t enough staff for adequate coverage.Discovery Early Learning and Care runs four centres in and around Sudbury, with licences for about 400 children in total.
Still, with the province developing a strategy to help meet its expansion targets, the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario is recommending a salary scale that would start at $25 an hour for all child-care workers and $30 an hour for registered early childhood educators. That shows educators that they can stay in the field and grow in their profession and be compensated for that growth and development over their career,” Ms. Vickerson says.
Last month, Ms. Roman had to close her centre’s infant room because of employee shortages. Parents can access part-time care, but full-time care remains unavailable. A report released earlier this year by the Early Childhood Educators of BC found that 45 per cent of early childhood education centres in that province are losing more staff than they can hire. Low pay, poor working conditions and lack of benefits are to blame, the report said.
It is estimated that Alberta’s early learning and child-care sector will need to recruit and retain between 7,000 and 20,000 ECEs to meet the requirements of the province’s deal with the federal government, according to a report released by the AECEA last month.
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