More than 300 New Zealand Defense Force staff will lose their jobs under a plan to cut military personnel to save money.
The 308 redundancies announced on Wednesday morning are the first phase of a plan to cut military personnel in an attempt to save about 23 million NZ dollars (18 million U.S. dollars).
The cuts include 81 officers and 227 other ranks. The hardest hit is the Army, which will lose 155 positions, followed by the Air Force (82 jobs) and the Navy (71 positions).
Staff have known for months about the changes, which involves cutting about 1,000 uniform jobs and replacing them with some 500 civilian staff.
The Defense Force says civilians cost an average of 20,000 NZ dollars less per year.
Editor: Chen Zhi
English.news.cn 2011-06-29 10:08:52 FeedbackPrintRSS
WELLINGTON, June 29 (Xinhua)
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