Child care centers oppose bill that would allow parents to hire their teachers - Minnesota Reformer
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Child care business owners urged lawmakers to reject a bill that would expand the state’s recent ban on noncompete agreements. The bill would ban provisions in contracts between businesses and customers that restrict workers’ employment choices. For child care centers, that would mean dropping contract provisions preventing parents from hiring teachers. “That’s going to be […]

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Like many employers, child care centers across the state are struggling to attract workers; losing even a couple teachers can force them to disenroll students. Low wages in child care centers — Piket pays $16 to $22 an hour plus benefits — means employers already have to worry about losing workers to big box stores and fast food chains as well as wealthy parents.

But from the worker’s perspective, their freedom to take the best job they can find is limited by contracts they aren’t even a party to.