Childcare Center Term
Post-hire training clock
Definition
The window a new hire has to start and finish training, rather than a gate before it.
Why It Matters
Florida requires a forty-hour introductory course and gates none of it before the person works. They must begin within ninety days of employment and finish within a year, passing a competency examination. So a screened hire counts in the ratio from day one, which makes this the least binding of the care trades to staff. The exposure runs the other way for a buyer: an acquired center holds a roster mid-clock, and a lapsed one-year completion is a violation that arrives with the business. Pull the completion date for every employee, not the credential count.