Refugees are typically very hard-working, highly motivated and loyal employees, and many are highly skilled too. On a fantastic speaking tour of New Zealand organised by Host International and other partners on 6-10 August I made the case for employing refugees including at a parliamentary breakfast hosted by Minister of Finance Grant Robertson and a lunch hosted by the British High Commissioner in New Zealand, Laura Clarke.
I was interviewed on TV on the AM Show and The Project
I wrote an article for the National Business Review
Here’s my interview with Sam Sadcheva for Newsroom.co.nz on refugee employment and the broader threat to openness from President Trump
Here’s a press release from Multicultural New Zealand calling for action to employ refugees
Here’s a great piece by Thomas Manch on stuff.co.nz