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Have your say: Migrant workers

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Some people remain on the benefit due to lack of needed skills or access to a vehicle.

Some people remain on the benefit due to lack of needed skills or access to a vehicle.

Re your leader article on immigrant workers brought in to do jobs our local workers won't do".

A friend of mine on a Job Seeker benefit says he should have been on a sickness benefit and was desperate to find a job since the benefit was inadequate.

I was with him in WINZ.

We looked at a list of 10 job vacancies and found three needed computer skills (he has none) and six needed a car.

PS To apply for a job here, one now has to do this online, not in person.

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Tough if you have no IT skills.

Jenny Peterson
Whangarei

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