All Ethical trade articles – Page 61
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Poll reveals recruitment difficulties
The struggle to recruit top-quality employees in the food and grocery industry is getting harder, according to IGD.
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ArticleGlasto in Banana Link gesture
Organisers of the Glastonbury festival have donated £74,000 to pressure group Banana Link.
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ArticleLabour providers accuse users
The Association of Labour Providers (ALP) has accused users in the fresh produce sector of refusing to pay the required rates to labour providers that would enable them to meet this week’s new national minimum wage and holiday entitlements for temporary workers.
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Israeli-Thai deal clinched
Inter-governmental agency the International Organisation for Migration has signed an agreement with the government of Thailand which enables the organisation to send Thai workers to Israel.
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Gangmasters respond to revocations
Three labour providers to the fresh produce trade have taken speedy steps to remedy the situation, having fallen foul of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA).
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Exosect takes on Batt
Exosect, a leading provider of intelligent pest management solutions, has announced that it has responded to a 100 per cent increase in demand for Exosex CM from South African distributor Terason, with the appointment of dedicated sales development manager for the region, Mark Batt.
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ArticleNFU carries on SAWS fight
The NFU has written to the Home Office to highlight the concerns of the horticulture industry for the availability of labour ahead of next years harvest season.
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New AWO brings higher costs
Changes to holiday arrangements in the 2007 Agricultural Wages Order for England & Wales are threatening significant labour cost increases and confusion across the sector.
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NZ eyes Latin workers
Grower representatives from New Zealand are working with the country’s trade board to investigate the possibility of attracting Argentinean labour to the NZ top-fruit sector.
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ArticleGLA revokes licence
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has revoked the licence of Cornish gangmaster Baltic Work Team Ltd with immediate effect
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ArticleWigram leaves G's
Tim Wigram is to leave his position as commercial director of onions at G’s Marketing on August 17.
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GLA revokes more licences
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority has revoked the licences of 11 labour providers.
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Pratt's in union link up
Banana importer SH Pratt has invited the GMB trade union to its Luton operation following a BBC Radio exposé in May of poor working conditions.
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NFU drive to attract youngsters
The NFU has launched a new report to attract young people to jobs in agriculture.
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Somerset grower misses out on labour
A Somerset grower found her farm was an inadvertent laboratory for government labour policy when she became one of the first growers to actually lose crops because of the unavailability of seasonal workers.
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Thai migrants in NZ exploitation claim
The NZ government is investigating claims that Thai workers are being exploited and abused in fruit-picking and other land-based jobs in the country.
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ArticleGLA in further produce raids
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority has kept up the pressure on the fresh produce trade with raids on seven salad and vegetable preparation plants.
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Pratt's under investigation
Pratt’s bananas will launch a “thorough and detailed investigation” into working conditions at its packing plant in Luton, Bedfordshire, in response to a BBC probe accusing the firm of exploiting migrant workers.
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Drivers are to blame for poor safety checks
An analysis by the Freight Transport Association Vehicle Inspection Service (FTA/VIS), which carries out over 100,000 vehicle inspections each year, has found that over half of safety related defects should have been found during daily walk-around checks by the driver and as many as 74 per cent for some sectors.
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Low-payers to get weeded out
The government is targeting cheating employers with a new regime of fines if they pay below the national minimum wage.