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Employers back PM's comments on drugs stopping young people from getting jobs

AWF and the EMA say the problem is “reasonably significant.”

Jason Walls
Tue, 28 Feb 2017

Prime Minister Bill English’s comments on businesses not being able to hire young Kiwis because they can’t pass a drugs test are dead on, according to Kiwi employers.

Mr English said yesterday he has two or three conversations a week with business owners who are worried about this issue and that

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Jason Walls
Tue, 28 Feb 2017
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