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.
Press Release – Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment From 11.59pm tonight all work in Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) facilities and by Government agencies at the border will be undertaken by vaccinated workers. The Government has introduced the new requirement under the COVID-19 Public Health …
From 11.59pm tonight all work in Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) facilities and by Government agencies at the border will be undertaken by vaccinated workers.
The Government has introduced the new requirement under the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021.
Joint Head of Managed Isolation and Quarantine, Brigadier Jim Bliss, says this is a big milestone in New Zealand’s vaccination programme.