Dozens of unemployed Islanders, including many school leavers, were given the opportunity to work at the new Rue des Prés printing press, which produces the JEP, through the Social Security Department’s Back to Work scheme earlier this year.
But many of them continually failed to turn up for work, or even interviews, and refused to work the night shifts required by the new job, according to Lorna Pestana – the head of Human Resources for KPS Services, which runs the press.
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