Covid 19 coronavirus: Horticulture industry, union welcome Government s RSE MIQ announcement
10 May, 2021 05:44 AM
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The Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme sees thousands of workers come to New Zealand each year, the majority from Pacific island countries. Photo / File
The Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme sees thousands of workers come to New Zealand each year, the majority from Pacific island countries. Photo / File
The horticulture industry that saw crops of fruit and vegetable rot over summer due to Covid-19 border restrictions is welcoming a new scheme to bring in more skilled overseas workers.
The Government announcement, which includes a further 2400 workers in the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme arriving mostly from Pacific island countries by March, has also been welcomed by a union saying the scheme was a win-win for employers and workers.
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Five hundred spaces per fortnight will be allocated in managed isolation facilities over the next 10 months, many for skilled and critical workers to support our economic recovery, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor say.
“The Trans-Tasman bubble has freed up more rooms, allowing us to allocate more places in managed isolation for critical workers,” Chris Hipkins said.
“It has given us flexibility to expand our engagement with the rest of the world on a targeted basis and attract skills and people needed to drive our economic recovery, while carefully managing risks of bringing in COVID-19.
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The EMA says its members will be
pleased with today’s announcement that more spaces have
been allocated in managed isolation facilities for skilled
and critical workers.
Chief Executive Brett O’Riley
says the message from its 7,400 member businesses has been
clear over the past year. They’re crying out for
people with the right skills to fill jobs to help them get
back on track post-COVID-19 and drive our economic
recovery.
The opening of the trans-Tasman bubble and
the allocation of 500 spaces a fortnight for the next 10
months for these workers is a great start, he says.
Govt announces 500 extra MIQ spaces a fortnight for skilled and critical workers
(Photo / NZ Herald) Fri, 14 May 2021, 1:19PM
The Government has announced 500 spaces a fortnight in managed isolation will be allocated over the next 10 months - the majority for skilled and critical workers.
The Government already has a policy for at least 10 per cent of MIQ spaces to be given to these workers – out of roughly 4500 fortnightly – but this announcement means 500 would be set aside for certain groups on a targeted basis.
The announcement was made at today s post-Cabinet press conference.
The trans-Tasman bubble had freed up more MIQ rooms, allowing more places in managed isolation to be allocated for critical workers, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said.