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Should Cabinet ministers’ exempt staff be allowed to ‘parachute’ into the public service? Yep

Don't allow anger over specific but rare incidents to lead us to make changes that are unwarranted by the evidence or harmful to the public service as a whole, says Larson.

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BY PETER LARSON
February 20, 2006

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Should Cabinet ministers’ exempt staff be allowed to ‘parachute’ into the public service? Yep

Don't allow anger over specific but rare incidents to lead us to make changes that are unwarranted by the evidence or harmful to the public service as a whole, says Larson.

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