“Thousands apply for fruit and veg picker jobs..”

[tunstallhill]

Top Man you are Mate.
I had a paper round and the Christmas tips were wonderful.

i'd love to know where the money went. i think on banger old cars, away games on the cheap, fiver petrol, cheap booze and drugs

 

[Goat Eyes]

Yip you cant do a second paid job on Furlough, you can do Volunteered work

You can do a second paid job.

 

[Swindon On Tour]

i'd love to know where the money went. i think on banger old cars, away games on the cheap, fiver petrol, cheap booze and drugs

My paper round money virtually went on watching football.
Away games on cheap train tickets. Memories to last a lifetime.

 

[Goat Eyes]

Yip you cant do a second paid job on Furlough, you can do Volunteered work

You can do a second paid job.

That's what puzzles me.

Some people are being furloughed and getting 80% of their salary coming in and taking on a second job, so they could have more money coming in.

Others are being refused furlough and cannot work because they are shielding and all they can claim is either £94 SSP/UC or £73 ESA, so they're facing financial worries but can't work to make ends meet.

It's a really unfair system and penalises the people who have been told to stay home because they are of high risk of serious illness/death so the hospital beds can be used for people more likely to survive it.

It isn’t fair to begrudge someone trying to make up their salary just because you don’t qualify.

80% of salary will also mean a lot will still have money worries.

 

[Barboza dh9]

You can do a second paid job.

Well my firm wouldnt allow us the letter they sent out

 

[Goat Eyes]

Well my firm wouldnt allow us the letter they sent out

Yeah, that’s company policy not government policy.

 

[riffraff]

They can't be British people, the British don't want to do those types of jobs.

They won’t when they see their first pay cheque.

 

[joemcdokes]

They won’t when they see their first pay cheque.

Have you read all the thread?

 

[conrad]

It was on the news the other day that they were crying out for them and that you could earn a second income when on furlough.

Couple that with being outdoors sounds ideal

only if you’ve never done it

 

[Sam Handwich]

Yeah, that’s company policy not government policy.

That would then become a contractual and financial nightmare. If your a furloughed worker you should have, by now already signed an agreement to a change in contract that forbids this.

 

[Tuono]

I'm self employed and enquired about UC. The person I spoke to was a bit vague but from what I understand if I claim the £94 UC then when my furlough payment is paid to me in June I don't have to pay this UC back. I thought it would be automatically deducted from the June payment but the woman I spoke to appeared to think not. I'm going to claim the UC and see what happens in June, nothing to lose really.

 

[Goat Eyes]

That would then become a contractual and financial nightmare. If your a furloughed worker you should have, by now already signed an agreement to a change in contract that forbids this.

My change of contract doesn’t explicitly forbid me from taking a second job.

 

[The Cheat]

i'd love to know where the money went. i think on banger old cars, away games on the cheap, fiver petrol, cheap booze and drugs

Aye, Christmas was mint like. Can't remember, but it must have taken me ages to do my full round while waiting for the tips at every door

 

[Sam Handwich]

My change of contract doesn’t explicitly forbid me from taking a second job.

Aye mines doesn't explicitly.Just had another look there and although it says "must not" undertake any paid work. It also says that if you do you must inform the company and any paid furlough would have to be repaid. Like i said though, a contractual and financial minefield. Anyways who wants to work when the factory is shut and the weathers canny. 80% and all you can drink

 

[zebediah]

Romanian fruit pickers flown to UK amid crisis in farming sector

Charter flights organised after appeal fails to recruit enough British workers

www.theguardian.com

Here they come again, taking all our jobs.

 

[Martin F]

Romanian fruit pickers flown to UK amid crisis in farming sector

Charter flights organised after appeal fails to recruit enough British workers

www.theguardian.com

Here they come again, taking all our jobs.

Because they're needed!

Brighton-based Concordia, one of the biggest recruiters of volunteer workers in the country, said it had 35,000 applications of interest after the appeal.

While the response was significant, it said only 16% – 5,500 people – opted to interview for a role, leaving a gap between supply and demand for pickers.

 

[joemcdokes]

Because they're needed!

Exactly, those applying for jobs will have been in limbo at the time as well, then moving on loads probably realised they don't need the work.
If I was off work not getting any money I'd do it, if there was somewhere local.

 

[bobster999]

I fancied doing that, had a look at the map earlier but the farms are at Edinburgh, Blackpool and around Nottingham.

 

[West_Winger]

4,300 expressions of interest

112 have accepted jobs.

70,000 is how many people we normally have working here seasonally to pick our fresh fruit and vegetables.

Cracking stuff.

 

[Beery]

4,300 expressions of interest

112 have accepted jobs.

70,000 is how many people we normally have working here seasonally to pick our fresh fruit and vegetables.

Cracking stuff.

I hope Priti Patel will be targeting her 5m inactive or whatever the number was to get them out doing this now or lose any benefits