- Location
- Cheltenham
Now the government have announced a points system for migrants entering the UK, how much of the fruit and Veg harvesting business be mechanised? Is this an area to exploit robotics?
Low skilled workers
- Thread starter Martin Holden
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glasshouse
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- lothians
That phrase really annoys me
Picking veg is a skilled job, the biggest skill being willing to do it.
Picking veg is a skilled job, the biggest skill being willing to do it.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
It’s it’s an area to exploits lazy benefit scrounging British people cut benefit make them work .
- Location
- Northumberland
Seems to me that they will only manage to replace EU immigration with non EU.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Being willing is not a “skill”, it’s a state of mind. It’s admirable to not be lazy, but it’s not a skill.
Robots are being developed to pick and grade fruit, but they are still a number of years away from commercial reality for picking anything like fast enough to replace even a below average human picker, let alone a good one.
Farfrae
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- Pontargothi, Carmarthenshire
Kind of ironic coming from an industry that trousers several billion in subsidy every year and who's often large capital assets can be kept inheritance tax free.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
No benefit will encourage the willing bit, it used to !
what makes Europeans want to work and brits not ?
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Yea Great in it! Wish I trouserd as much in sub as veg growers !!
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
There will be a seasonal agricultural worker exemption
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I am afraid it is a skill, it has to be learned and maintained, the ability to get out of bed and keep working doesnt just happen
- Location
- south norfolk
A lot of young brits are far too lazy to do it,having to get up early and work in the cold.how aweful for the snowflakes who would rather lay in bed and watch tv and collect benefits.if they do turn up they end up with more rights than the bosses.talking to a builder mate at a funeral last week.he told me there are several youngsters working there who mostly turn up at least an hour late and spend a lot of time on phones,having long meal breaks and generally mucking about.nearly impossible for bosses to get rid of them and it don’t go down well with older staff who turn up on time and do their work.all being paid the same too.
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Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Something will have to change , the employment rules are far to weighted for the employee .
Lazy Sod
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- Warminster Wiltshire
There will need to be an exemption for care home workers.
Biggest skill being willing to do it sounds like all farming !
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
They need Phil a pinos in care homes none Eu , an exceptionally caring race of humans . Sorry I can’t spell it .
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- Scottish Highlands
No, I disagree. Plenty lads play football every day, but very few of them have the ability to get paid to do it. There’s a huge difference between work ethic and ability.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Never have any ability if they don’t work hard at it.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
True, but I could train all day and never get signed.