Job officers protest
PA Auckland! Labour Department' employment officers north i of Auckland have begun Working to rule in protest; against staff shortages. ; They said that although! unemployment had greatly i increased in Northland since' 1977, .the Government had; refused to employ more Staff. The officers have limited; (their work to eight inter-’ • Views, a day for two and a
[half days a week, and fieldiwork and placement on the other two days and a half i The Auckland secretary of :the Public Service Association (Mr A. Webster) said ithe officers wanted a 50 per 'cent increase in staff and : would continue the work to I rule until that was achieved. : The department’s director of employment (Mr J. Jamie- [ son) had agreed to visit Whangarei from April 21 to 123 to examine the situation,
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