Brexit – Page 3
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News
Food and drink industry facing 'time bomb' on labour
The annual study of the largest 150 UK food & drink suppliers lays bare the labour challenge facing the industry
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Apple sector faced with big labour shortages
Average labour levels are down 20% year on year as the sector enters its crucial harvesting season
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Leave voters back seasonal work permits for EU citizens
New research by British Summer Fruits reveals 61% of Brexiteers favour a visa scheme
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Soft fruit industry demands seasonal worker scheme
Fruit growers report that in some areas up to 20% of seasonal workers have left farms and gone home
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Growers warn time running out in seasonal migrant workers crisis
Growers are ’deeply concerned’ about the lack of action, said NFU horticulture board chairman Ali Capper
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MPs urge introduction of Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme
Commons debate hears failure could lead to labour shortages and increased food prices
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Analysis and Features
Why are so few Brits prepared to pick fruit?
The UK fruit & veg sector is at risk because Brexit has made it harder to hire seasonal workers from Europe - and Brits don’t want to do the job. We explain why it’s so hard to hire British workers for seasonal jobs, and what to do about it.
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Soft fruit industry at risk without labour assurances
British Summer Fruits warns of “extreme” situation over labour shortages and soaring prices if the government does not address migrant labour shortages soon
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Post-Brexit access to migrant labour vital warn rural businesses
The CLA echoed calls from other producers for the introduction of a seasonal agricultural workers scheme
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Manufacturers need to rethink recruitment as labour crisis looms
Threat to migrant workforce comes as industry needs to recruit up to 140,000 new workers by 2024.
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Government confidence in migrant labour supply 'misplaced'
Agriculture and horticulture facing ’considerable difficulties in recruiting and retaining labour’
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Comment and Opinion
Labour puts welcome focus on looming skills crisis post-Brexit
The food and drink industry has to step up and keep stressing the huge ramifications not just for the current workforce but for the skills and people it needs in the future too
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Analysis and Features
Labour shortage fears need to be taken seriously
Labour shortages in the agricultural industry are a very real threat to the food industry already, warned Alison Capper
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News
Migrant labour fears unfounded, claim government ministers
They told the Efra Committee there was “no evidence” the food sector had faced any difficulties attracting migrant labour
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Analysis and Features
The future of EU migrant workers must be clarified by Theresa May
With employers across many sectors reporting labour and skills shortages post EU referendum, companies are fearful of a hard Brexit and how they are going to fill gaps in the workforce
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Food industry calls for work on agriculture labour shortages
Call for government to reintroduce the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Scheme (SAWS). which was axed in 2013
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Comment and Opinion
UK faces a labour challenge for 'British jobs'
Theresa May has started to put some flesh on the bones on the deservedly much-maligned phrase ‘Brexit means Brexit’
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Analysis and Features
Brexit: the impact on the workforce
One third of the food and drink manufacturing workforce has travelled to the UK from elsewhere in the EU
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Seasonal labour shortage will hit fruit & veg supply warns NFU
Last year, one in three (29%) British growers struggled to find the seasonal labour they needed to harvest their crops
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