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Scheme that offered $1000 to relocate to pick fruit attracts just 339 people


Bonnie Flaws05:01, May 01 2021
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Peter Cederman employs RSE workers at his Brooklyn orchard in the Tasman district and says his business couldn t survive without them. (Video first published October 11, 2020)
An incentive scheme intended to attract unemployed people to plug the worker shortage in the horticulture sector had attracted just 339 people as of April 16.
The shortage is due to border closures, preventing Pacific Island workers from entering the country. Around 15,000 workers from the islands normally come each year to pick fruit and carry out other orchard or packing work.
The Ministry for Social Development seasonal work scheme, which offered up to $200 a week for accommodation costs and a $1000 incentive payment for workers who completed jobs of six weeks or longer, was launched late year. By early March only 87 people had signed up to the scheme. ....

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Hawke's Bay apple growers face picking crisis


Photo: Susan Murray RNZ
Mr Yummy apples grower and owner Paul Paynter said he was leaving fruit on large trees that were difficult to pick and some trees would only get picked once rather than two or three times.
Paynter said it was even worse for owner-operator orchards.
The big corporates like us have HR departments and are relatively sophisticated, but the smaller growers really suffer. They re really struggling because they re only picking on Sunday and they re not picking the rest of the week.
Some pickers are picking for everybody else (corporates) for six days and only going to them on Sundays. So they can t find people . they aren t getting anyone coming through the doors, he said. ....

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