The Association of Labour Providers (ALP) has launched a new online job board to tackle the problem of declining numbers of migrant workers choosing to work in horticulture and other sectors of the fresh produce industry, and to help address the skills shortages within the wider UK food and agriculture sectors.
The board offers labour providers, recruitment agencies and labour users the opportunity to post all their vacancies in horticulture, food processing, agriculture and forestry. And for work regulated by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, only licensed labour providers will be able to advertise. Workers will therefore know that they are not applying to work for rogue unlicensed gangmasters.
Advertising on the site - www.labourproviders.org.uk - is free of charge for all vacancies until July 31, helping to meet the peak rise in summer demand.
David Camp, director of the ALP, said: “The intention is to create a job board that will grow to become a definitive source of jobs for UK and EU jobseekers in food and farming, and will be the most effective central tool for labour providers and users alike. We want to provide labour providers and others with a cost-effective method of sourcing workers.”
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