Employment by James O’Doherty
Premium Content Overseas agricultural workers will get half price hotel quarantine in a bid to address a shortage of 15,000 workers across the horticulture and meat sectors in NSW. The Daily Telegraph can reveal the Berejiklian government will today announce a policy to subsidise half the cost of hotel quarantine for workers entering NSW under Pacific Labor Scheme or the Seasonal Worker Program - at a cost of $1,500 per person. It follows pleas from farmers for more workers, with the industry arguing international border closures have gutted their workforce. Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall with Young farmer David Davidson, who has welcomed cut price quarantine costs for seasonal agriculture workers. Picture: Tim Hunter
Cut-price quarantine for overseas farm workers
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Fruit and veg growers at the pointy end of labour shortages as government incentives fall short of industry s needs
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February-April is the busiest season for picking on southern Queensland s Granite Belt.
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Shoppers are being warned to expect higher produce prices at the checkout in the coming months after government programs failed to attract enough workers to address the industry s ongoing farm labour shortages.
Key points:
A Federal Government program aimed at attracting more Australians to harvest work has been taken up by 453 people
A similar incentive offered by the Queensland government has attracted around 60 people