Andrea Lewis has been having trouble recruiting and retaining staff at her Manitoulin Island child-care centre, to the point where she has been forced to close the daycare for six weeks.
The last staff member to leave went to the school board, where many early childhood educators have been enticed to work, she said.
That's the same day as the deadline for licensed child-care operators to decide if they want to opt in to the $10-a-day program. As part of that deal between Ontario and the federal government, the province is establishing an $18-an-hour wage floor for registered early childhood educators and $20 for RECE supervisors.
"That means not just wages ... but a real career progression and career ladders that people are able to see."
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