Tea ladies to be drug tested

• Jenny Michie
• 12 years ago
• Categories: don brash, national, public services, tourism

 Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson seems to be living  in an alternative universe, with her comment on Checkpoint yesterday that tea ladies in the adventure tourism industry could be drug tested:

“The boss might be tested, it could be his turn or it could be the tea lady.”

We’ll take it as a given that Kate assumes the boss is a man but I do wonder just how connected to the work force, or you know…real life she is if she believes that tea ladies have survived the last three decades.

However at least we know she’s got a neighbour back there in Pleasantville; Don Brash is no doubt queuing outside his local post office right now, waiting for work.

And who does the government think is actually going to do all this testing and implementing new regualtion?  The same two (or is it one now?) DOL mining safety inspectors?