I guess Brexit voters can finally get those jobs they so desperately need
The real tragedy is that they'll have to pick cotton, forcing them to admit the irony of their vote.
It's going to be fun seeing the absolute drought of European workers who do all the crap jobs and when those jobs are then "available", nobody takes anyone up on them because "Us British are above those types of jobs" :/
Also we simply don't actually have the workforce to fill the amount of seasonal jobs that will be opened up by losing European workers, on top of all the other sector workforce deficits it will cause.
Brexit is so incredibly fucking stupid.
This is no joke. I went to find out if a local restaurant was hiring, and I got hired on the spot without even a CV. I just said I lived locally and wanted a job.
My dad already had enough problems finding nurses to work at his mum's care home business, the whole Brexit thing just kicked that problem into overdrive.
meanwhile here you have to have previous experience to work in a chip shop.
Who could ever have predicted this?
This happened to Germany once, too, when someone had the brilliant idea to limit the ratio of foreign workers for certain seasonal jobs
Though that said, there's a bunch of issues with having many of these low-paid jobs around in the first place.
It's a tricky situation since (afaik) it tends to widen income gaps quite a bit. That's going to cause way more issues down the line unless it's mitigated somehow.
Well, that's a real shame.
I think these companies should reach out to young people to pick fruit and whatnot, you don't get paid much but it's perfect for young people who aren't skilled and still in education.
I think more should be done to invest in automating fruit picking as well - robotic fruit pickers would be good. Since Brexit has occured, the fruit+veg industry and government should work together to focus on a technological solution to this problem.
I bet a technological solution is a long way off, creating a machine that can pick fruit off a bush, taking into account the irregularity and randomness of a fruit bush that can pick the fruit off without destroying the plant is probably near impossible at the moment.
Robot on a rail, lidar scanner attachment scans the plant if a fruit/vegetable shape is detected then compares it to others made in a database then the robot says "good enough" and picks it. the problem with picking bots is that infrastructure is expensive and paying someone minimum wage for 3 months is cheap enough that the cost of robots is just a diminishing return in profits.
If your in a position to buy a picking system it's better and more profitable to just spend that money on more land for more product to cover costs then to automate it right now.
https://youtu.be/bt73GOk4JRY
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