Briefs: school lunchbreak chaos

Lunchtime at primary schools is in chaos since new tax rules for supervisors were introduced, the Volkskrant reports. Parents are now paying up to €350 a year so that their child can stay at school during the break because of the clampdown on ‘illegal’ workers such as benefit claimants.

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