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October 8, 2013
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In your experience
Ask questions & give advice
In response to numerous emails from our readers seeking advice on a range of issues relating to the early childhood sector we have decided to launch a monthly column where you can ask a question and have it answered by your peers and colleagues.
Peer-to-peer advice is one of the best ways of solving workplace issues and we hope that providing you with a forum to anonymously ask questions will be a valuable way of learning from the experience and knowledge of your peers in the sector.
Questions can relate to any aspect of early childhood education and care.
"I have worked in child care for more than ten years and hold a Teacher's Assistant's Diploma from university which is equivalent to a Cert IV in child care.
My employer says I now have to do a Cert III which I am not sure is correct as I am currently being paid as a Cert IV on level 3.4.
Surely I don't have to do Cert III if I have the equivalent of Cert IV do I?"