Germany’s state-run job centres have come in for a tongue-lashing from their own boss Heinrich Alt.<br /><br /> Far from driving Germany’s economic miracle the Federal Labour Agency is too bureaucratic and ineffectual, and is bloated and inefficient with too many staff. <br /><br /> Alt challenges his agency to do more to reverse its failure to the more than one million long-term unemployed, and is cutting staff by 5000 by 2019. <br /><br /> While labour reforms have seen unemployment fall to record lows, the agency’s payroll has actually grown in size.
