4course
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- Location
- north yorks
and they will soon be of to get their hgv cos according my driver pal currently over £20/hour for 35 hours is easily attainable and thats up here, and so will everyone else employed on a farmWe grow 20,000kg of mushrooms each week and it is getting very difficult to find people to pick them. It’s a bit like dairy farming, they double in size every day and you can’t switch it off on Sundays, bank holidays and Christmas. It takes 6 weeks of planning to organise a day off for everyone on Christmas Day! We pay living wage + a good bonus for picking faster. We are competing with huge amounts of imported Polish mushrooms being picked at £4/hr. Local chicken factories have increased wages to £10.50/hr to keep/encourage staff, (mostly Eastern European with settled status).