New Zealanders with low skills are often drug addicts or simply not go to work.
New Zealand needs migrants to fill empty jobs with low citifinacial, since local people often have problems with drugs and not come to work. This was stated by Prime Minister John Key, reports Slon.
“Ask the employer about the locals – ed.) they say that some of these people will not pass a drug test, some of them do not come to work, while others claim to have health problems,” said the Minister, citing the example of seasonal work in fruit picking.
The Guardian quotes one of the owners of fruit plantations in New Zealand. “Fully agree with the Prime Minister. I was a few years ago, hired residents of Auckland (the largest city in New Zealand – ed.) but they lasted three days, got drunk and broke equipment worth three thousand dollars”, – said the businessman.
In July in New Zealand net profit of 69 thousand foreigners, this was a record number of migrants for the country. The number of unemployed in New Zealand, according to official data, reaches 131 thousand people.
Earlier it was reported that the shortage of avocados in New Zealand arising out of failed agricultural season has led to a sharp increase in thefts of fruit in the country.
