What about the people making the profit!! That's half the problem. Licensees and owners don't want to give up their BMWs etc to pay staff what they deserve. They expect child care workers to go back to work for unpaid staff meetings, unpaid working bees, unpaid staff development sessions which are usually on a weekend. Unpaid kids Christmas parties, kindy graduations, parent teacher interviews, orientation nights. Half the time staff do paperwork in their lunch break or at home.oh staff are away let's combine rooms so we don't have to pay a relief staff to come in. I wonder if parents knew that?