Busy bees as a business shocking - Senior Room Manager Busy Bees Childcare Employee Review

2.0
27 July 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

In house training via internet very good keeping up to date with the regulations etc

Cons

Spit you out when no longer needed, Expendiable staff even with years of experience do not support when personal issues are apparent. Expect you to work all the hours in the day, early years are long days but some days 7.30 till 6pm and no extra breaks , payslips not available for everyone and taken me 2 years to see mine not paid right wage all through employment and trying to get them to acknowlege this is like pulling teeth even though they can see this and have sent me my hourly rate since starting. Always sending children home because of stafing issues not a consistant childcare provider.

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Busy Bees Childcare Response
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Thankyou for your review, we appreciate all the feedback we receive. We're pleased to hear you had a good experience with our training facilities and took advantage of the opportunities we offer to help each employee progress within our settings! Please be assured we appreciate all of the staff that work hard in our centres and all overtime is at the employee's discretion. Daily hours are outlined at the beginning of employment within the contracts given. We appreciate there has been some frustration around our payroll system but you will be pleased to know that we have had a new system in place and all payslips have always been viewable via the employee's waggle account. Thank you again for your review and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours.

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5.0
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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

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