Makes start, sadly, as scourge of workforce? (10)

I believe the answer is:

taskmaster

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'scourge of workforce?' is the definition.
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'makes start sadly' is the wordplay.
'sadly' indicates an anagram.
'makes'+'start'='makesstart'
'makesstart' anagrammed gives 'TASKMASTER'.

'as' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for taskmaster that I've seen before include "Person enforcing hard work" , "One imposing heavy workload" , "Supervisor" , "slave-driver" , "One proverbially hard job given to" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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