Yeah, it seems unfair to stop paying for stuff just because the kid got a job. If you were going to pay for it before they had a job, you should keep paying for it.
My kids have a paper route, and my daughter turns 12 this summer and will start making pretty serious coin as a babysitter. Our basic rule is that they have to put 10% away for charity, 10% for savings, and the rest they can spend as they choose. Right now it's pretty small dollars, but when my daughter starts babysitting she'll be making probably a couple hundred bucks a month. I expect at that point that we'll get a little more involved in helping her manage her money.
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