With All The People Losing Their Jobs Isn't It Time

[lankeela]

we stopped allowing foreign workers to enter the country for example the influx of poultry workers for the seasonal trade during the pandemic? Surely there are enough workers already here that could do the work?

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coming-to-england-for-seasonal-poultry-work-on-farms-and-processing-sites?utm_source=82ef2ed8-dd83-47e8-b3f7-3961d41b09ad&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=daily

[ummmm]

Not quite as simple as that. People tend to job hunt in the jobs they are trained to do.

[Chinajan]

Similar to fruit picking, it's often the case that workers need to live at the site because there's little or no public transport to get there and back.

Add to that the disincentive of signing off Universal Credit for what might only be a short term job and then having to wait five weeks for any money when you sign back on again.

[ichkeria]

Yes they'll be flocking from all over Britain to the the poultry farms for a few weeks of making sure the country doesn't run out of turkeys.
Only to find the regulars from abroad have got there first.

I predict a riot.

[jno]

send all those sacked BA staff off to poultry farms at the other end of the country? Would you leave your family behind to do it?

[bobbinwales]

Unfortunately its not that easy. We ended up having to fly-in fruit and veg pickers as not enough here applied or stuck with it for more than a few days. Many of the jobs require you to stay on the farm etc for 7 days a week sleeping in tents or huts and be up at 4 in the morning, to much like hardwork for little pay for most of are unemployed

[Bobbisox1]

My son in law is a site manager for a very large construction company and oversees completed work is finished to a high standard, this includes cleaning which is normally carried out by either Polish or Romanian cleaners who he says are very hard workers and they take pride in their jobs, Why poles and Romanians? Because the Brits won't do it !

[lankeela]

Surely wouldn't be that difficult to arrange for them to be paid instead of getting benefits for a short time? If I needed a job I would certainly consider it.

[douglas9401]

I doubt Janis from sales would be up for slaughtering and gutting turkey lurkey.

With THESE nails?

[Ken4155]

The DWP has a history of making the simplest of tasks unbelievably difficult to implement.

[TrevorThePug]

The problem with living in a tent on a farm for 7 days a week is that you don’t get much ‘Me time’ the signal for Netflix is usually rubbish, and selfies with a rude parsnip are sooooo yesterday.

[barry1010]

People who have never plucked turkeys before will be far too slow - same as commercial fruit and veg pickers. It sounds easy but it can be backbreaking and needs a lot of practice to be quick enough.

[barry1010]

The standard pay for turkey pluckers is around £2.60 a bird with a two week employment window.

[Hopkirk]

Are there any jobs for pheasant pluckers?

[barry1010]

Yes, during the season

[Buenchico]

Working in the poultry processing industry isn't totally unskilled work. It takes up to 12 weeks to train staff in their roles, which is why the processing plants much prefer to take on staff who've done the work before (and why it's now too late to recruit staff who've no experience to many roles). So employers desperately need to get back as many staff as possible who've worked for them in previous years.

[jourdain2]

Every local person I knew in France could dispatch poultry very quickly and efficiently. We, squeamish, Brits. used to swap a live bird for one of their dead ones - with a few hardy exceptions. It really is quite easy, although I have a few horror stories from beginners - which I won't curdle you with. :) Quite why you have to import turkey killers is a bit beyond me.

[barry1010]

Jourdain, we don't import turkey killers. We import pluckers as the machines can't remove all the feathers.