Every Child Counts – a collaborative campaign focused on ensuring children get the support they need for healthy development – held an evening for business owners in Wellington last week.

Early childhood centres are seldom asked to care for a child with HIV or AIDs. These guidelines support you and your centre to provide love, respect, care and education for a child with HIV or AIDs as well as all other children within a safe environment.

An employee claimed she was unjustifiably dismissed from her employment and unjustifiably disadvantaged in that she was not permitted to participate in promised training activities. Her employer said she could not be dismissed as she was a casual employee engaged on an as when required basis.

An employee claimed he was dismissed without reason and unjustifiably. His employer claimed the employee was under a fixed term employment agreement and was to be terminated at the end of the specified term.

An employee claimed he was unjustifiably dismissed and disadvantaged by the failure of his employer to pay all outstanding wages and holiday pay. The employee understood the position was on a permanent part-time basis and started on a contract to be reviewed after 8 weeks. Instead the employee position was terminated by email after working for eleven weeks.

An employee claimed he had been constructively dismissed when employed under a casual contract. He had been employed on an as needed and required basis.