The migrant workers pay the same tax rate a everyone else working in NZ, on top of that, under the government scheme we have to pay for flights to get here, provide accommodation whist they are here and ensure they have access to medical care if needed, allowing the Pacific Islanders to work here helps both countries, we get the labour required they get an income to take back home, improving their local economy, it is certainly preferable to sending foreign aid.
I don’t follow the logic of this. You might as well say that if a family farm pays a workman, it takes money out of the farm, even though the alternative is that the work doesn’t get done and the business is poorer as a result.
The none migrant worker spends all his money in the UK most of it locally, generally migrant workers live in squalid conditions and save as much as possible to take home, fair play to them but it does little for the UK other than let fatcat growers get fatter off exploited labour.
But if the options are that either a migrant worker does the job, or the job doesn’t get done, what’s the choice?
Yeah.I dont know how NZ taxation works but temporary migrant workers have been able to avoid tax in the UK in some cases , IIRC the same in Aussie, after Boris`s recent deal with Jacinda you`ll soon be sending stuff to the UK ,picked by migrant workers.
It shows a lack of understanding on how a business operates.
We already do, although the UK is not a big paying market and Jacindas deal won't really make that much difference, the higher paying markets are in Asia.I dont know how NZ taxation works but temporary migrant workers have been able to avoid tax in the UK in some cases , IIRC the same in Aussie, after Boris`s recent deal with Jacinda you`ll soon be sending stuff to the UK ,picked by migrant workers
They're not allowed in at the moment, back packers did quite a lot of our work, very few are from the UK, the UK back packers tend to go for the work in bars and restaurants, most of our back packer workers were South American.
What poor countries have that rich countries don't is a large pool of labour. If there's money to be made working in trades in the richest countries then it encourages people to enter these trades to work in richer countries in doing so they not only earn money but gain transferable experience that they can take back to their own countries. Poor countries need healthcare workers for sure but they also need money to pay them money earned overseas drives the economies of poorer countries. If you have an organised and regulated system that brings in foreign workers be it for fruit and veg harvesting or for nursing or for tech industries then you could avoid a lot of illegal migration plus at the end of everyone's contracts they go home.
FFS don't just give them it for no return then.
Why would I do that I'm not mental.
British workers will change jobs and work on farms but only when the growers/farmer's up their game, better pay and conditions, this may take a couple of years to balance out, Using migrant workers will keep the current exploitative system running indefinitely.
And it genuinely is slave labour down in Almeria and along the coast there, the growers are no more than gangsters but UK supermarkets are happy to buy off them.
I bet they don’t. There would have to be a real shortage of jobs before people go back to manual labour on the land. People left these jobs because whilst the pay wasn’t brilliant the actual jobs are hard work and often the conditions that they are carried out in are pretty rubbish. What will actually happen is more mechanization will occur and some crops will no longer be grown in the UK. Alternatively pick a Tuesday morning just before Homes under the Hammer is on TV and go house to house in Boston loading up all the able bodied people into transport and take them out into the fields.They voted for it so now they have to make it work.
Some will move back into agriculture maybe not enough , growers may find they have to offer 38 hour four day weeks and £15.00+ ph with paid tea and dinner breaks in canteens and no having to clock off for a pizz, proper clean working toilets and quality wet weather clothing , however mechanisation is the answer and it is advancing at a fast rate , you`ll need techie types to run these new machines so computer graduate types who can run a machine that does the work of ten labourers .