The Department of Employment will send 1,200 Thai workers to Israel after it was given a quota to send 5,000 agricultural workers to the Middle Eastern country in the second half of the year.
The incident comes days after a Department of Employment and Labour employee was killed by her partner, also an employee at the Fort Beaufort Labour Centre, in what was described as a gender-based violence related incident.
Farmers and backpackers agree that the axed go-to harvest trail farm labour program could increase costs, threaten harvest, and exploit vulnerable workers.