Tag: seasonal workers

Following several years of campaigning by the NFU, the Government has announced a five-year extension to the Seasonal Workers Scheme ...

Ahead of the start of 2024’s British berry season, British farmers’ Hall Hunter, has launched an extensive recruitment programme to ...

All growers using migrant seasonal workers are invited to attend free workshops at venues around the country in February and ...

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is exploring views on and usage of the Seasonal Worker visa, and how well the route ...

Hampshire farmer Graham Collett has warned that the UK fruit industry would ‘collapse’ without access to migrant seasonal workers. He ...

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has made it clear that the government will not be granting growers’ appeals to turn the ...

Could 2023 finally be the year that politicians begin to take food security seriously? Whisper it quietly, but there are ...

The increased allocation of six-month seasonal worker visas, to 45,000 in 2023, announced by Defra and the Home Office in ...

Responding to Defra’s announcement on the Seasonal Workers Scheme, NFU Deputy President Tom Bradshaw said: “This increase in visas is ...

According to a report in The Guardian, prime minister Rishi Sunak has been urged not to let a renewed focus ...