Crops will 'rot in the ground' without offshore fruit pickers coming into NZ, Auckland grower says
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[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (4 children)
strangely, not a single advert for fruit pickers in any of the job sites i'm subscribed to.
I wonder if that's because the employment conditions are against NZ employment law, and Kiwis will call it out?
[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (3 children)
NZ has to fly labor workers into the country.
They denied the visas.
[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
I live in NZ. There's a lot of unemployed people, looking for work.
The fishing jobs and the orchard jobs have not been advertised, although they have asked for vineyard workers.
[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
They claim it's specialized and labor intensive.
It's probably terrible work. Picking fruit out of trees 'n shit.
[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
it will be some illegality in pay. You can't legally force people to live in overcrowded accommodation, then take inflated payment for that and food that they have no choice about from their wages, taking them underneath the minimum pay threshold, for example.
I did a lot of fruit picking in my youth. Its easy work, out in the sun. The trees are pruned really short. sweet as
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