Martin Doyle Cartoon: Backlog Clearance Unit

Monday, 11 March 2013, 3:04 pm
Opinion: Martin Doyle

Backlog Clearance Unit

By Martin Doyle
11 March, 2013

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Good to see an army of "Backlog" workers is being hired to work through Novopay. It's the inverse of the government's original 'larger class sizes' policy that had been proposed for schools. .

Ref: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10870512
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