SUVA, 20 FEBRUARY 2017 ( FIJI TV via PACNEWS)
52 Fijian workers have been farewelled and presented with their life skills training and pre-departure orientation certificates.
This was presented to them by the Permanent Secretary for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations, Salaseini Daunabuna.
This is one of the biggest single deployment that the Ministry of Employment has carried out under the New Zealand
Recognised Seasonal Employer Work Scheme (RSE)and the Australia Seasonal Worker Programme.
Out of this, 42 workers will be employed with Bostok New Zealand Limited which was introduced to the Employment Ministry through the New Zealand Secondment Programme.
The remaining 10 workers will be employed with Thornhill Horticultural Contracting Ltd and engaged in vineyard work such as baling, crop spraying, cultivation, drilling, earthmoving, planting and ploughing.
The employer is a labour hire company in the horticulture industry and workers employed by them work mainly with Grapes and vineyards.
