Plunket staff are upset the organisation will shut down a parenting education programme, due to a lack of funding.
Six hundred PEPE courses are attended by about 4000 parents and caregivers each year. The decision follows a month-long staff consultation.
Twenty-two jobs - five permanent and 17 casual - will go, and another 16 people will have their hours reduced.
Whānau awhina Plunket chief executive Amanda Malu says the charity can no longer afford to run the programme with its current deficit of $400,000 a year.
Malu spoke to Susie Ferguson.