Labour shortages in the food and farming sector – Parliament – {5/26/2024

in the sector. have been badly hit, with the pig sector being particularly affected. The food sector is the ’s largest manufacturing sector but faces permanent shrinkage if a failure to address its acute labour shortages leads to wage rises, price increases, reduced competitiveness and, ultimately, food production being exported

Migrant labour ’s post-Brexit agri-food system … – {5/26/2024

Since the expansion of the Union (EU) in 2004, the farming and food sector has recruited large numbers of migrant workers from central and eastern EU countries. The decision by the electorate in 2016 to leave the EU – what has been termed Brexit – has created a ‘crisis’ in relation to the continued supply of migrant …