Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when we sat in this room back when that first came up when we were reviewing the main estimates, it was discussed that there was a desire to seek wage parity between centre-based providers and people who were working as classroom assistants in our JK to 12 education system. As it stands, our home-based educators have already received that parity based on their higher aftertax income that they do have. However, our centre-based providers still do make less than our education assistants. And so the goal there is to use that $3.5 million that, thank you, was secured by Regular Members in order to increase that amount and bring them to parity with classroom assistants.
Caitlin Cleveland on Question 477-20(1): Pay and Benefits for Early Childcare Providers
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Question 477-20(1): Pay and Benefits for Early Childcare Providers
Oral Questions
February 11th, 2025
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