Holly Bancroft
Social Affairs Correspondent at The Independent
Social Affairs Correspondent at The Independent • @independent • 📩 [email protected]/ [email protected] 🦋https://t.co/wf5gkyPjbT
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2 days ago |
msn.com | Emiliano Mellino |Holly Bancroft
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independent.co.uk | Emiliano Mellino |Holly Bancroft
A government-commissioned report suggests British farms and supermarkets could address the exploitation of seasonal fruit and vegetable pickers by covering their travel and visa costs, estimated to be between £850-£1,500 per worker. The study, undertaken for the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), proposes four models where recruiters, farms, retailers, or consumers bear the costs, potentially adding 1-3 pence per week to consumer fruit and vegetable prices.
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2 days ago |
msn.com | Emiliano Mellino |Holly Bancroft
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 days ago |
independent.co.uk | Emiliano Mellino |Holly Bancroft
Exclusive: It would cost employers £850-1,500 to bring each worker to the UK, study into seasonal worker visa findsBritish farms and supermarkets could tackle the exploitation of fruit and vegetable pickers by paying their travel and visa costs, according to a government-commissioned report.
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3 days ago |
business-humanrights.org | Emiliano Mellino |Holly Bancroft
“Farms and supermarkets could pay to bring foreign farm workers to UK, government-commissioned report says”British farms and supermarkets could tackle the exploitation of fruit and vegetable pickers by paying their travel and visa costs, according to a government-commissioned report.
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