Staffing

Wireben17

New Member
Afternoon All

I'm thinking about using an agency for staffing. Im sick of being let down. Can anyone recommend any agencies and whats your experiences? Can anyone say how much you roughly pay? Thank you
 

unlacedgecko

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
Sorry Dairy Farm.
Speak to LKL, farm solutions etc. they'll tell you in detail what their costs are.

Personally, I wouldn't work for an agency, but that's just me. There are many who do and seem very happy with it.

I have a dairy farm landowner who is getting rid of his LKL herdsman and going back to recruiting his own staff directly. I have other dairy landowners who have employed many LKL staff and are very happy with them.

I would add, an agency doesn't mean you won't be met down. But it does mean you effectively out source all legal compliance and recruiting.
 

multi power

Member
Location
pembrokeshire
For the price of food to double, supply would have to be halved.

Supply is going to drop 50% if subsidies were abolished?

That is nonsense.
Well let me explain
1939-1945 food was very scarce, and expensive, to the extent the country nearly starved, hence food production became subisied, increasing supply and reducing the cost
So basically subsidies are there to keep food cheap, something they do very successfully
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
Afternoon All

I'm thinking about using an agency for staffing. Im sick of being let down. Can anyone recommend any agencies and whats your experiences? Can anyone say how much you roughly pay? Thank you

What sort of staff? Full time herdsman, entry level, relief milker?
How do these agencies work? do they just recruit, or send someone to you at say 15 quid an hour but pay them minimum wage, or?.....
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ

There seems to me quite a few companies using agency staff here now, especially for entry level positions or temp work spud diggers, onion graders etc. The agency takes a lot of compliance stuff on and charges a lot per person for it. Sounds good but increasingly companies wont direct hire, so staff have to go through the agency. As a result I think a lot of people look at it as, I'm not doing the work for minimum wage while someone 'hiring me out' makes a fortune.
 

unlacedgecko

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
There seems to me quite a few companies using agency staff here now, especially for entry level positions or temp work spud diggers, onion graders etc. The agency takes a lot of compliance stuff on and charges a lot per person for it. Sounds good but increasingly companies wont direct hire, so staff have to go through the agency. As a result I think a lot of people look at it as, I'm not doing the work for minimum wage while someone 'hiring me out' makes a fortune.

Same here, especially for warehouse/cold store like work. In UK these positions are mainly filled by Eastern European’s.
 

liammogs

Member
There seems to me quite a few companies using agency staff here now, especially for entry level positions or temp work spud diggers, onion graders etc. The agency takes a lot of compliance stuff on and charges a lot per person for it. Sounds good but increasingly companies wont direct hire, so staff have to go through the agency. As a result I think a lot of people look at it as, I'm not doing the work for minimum wage while someone 'hiring me out' makes a fortune.

There is that, but I've worked on few different farms and not all bosses have been the same, some Id go help at a drop of a hat, made really good friends, some like to talk big/act big bit can't pay a small bill of a workers wages!! Nothing worse than having to chase money after already doing the work, I'd rather take a little less of the pie knowing I'm always going to have it than all of it and not knowing when I'm having it
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
There is that, but I've worked on few different farms and not all bosses have been the same, some Id go help at a drop of a hat, made really good friends, some like to talk big/act big bit can't pay a small bill of a workers wages!! Nothing worse than having to chase money after already doing the work, I'd rather take a little less of the pie knowing I'm always going to have it than all of it and not knowing when I'm having it

You work for an agency?
How much do they make per hour from you?
 

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