Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes

(asked on 28th August 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many workers on the seasonal workers pilot have left early.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 8th September 2020

With regard to the Honourable Members question about the number of workers in the Seasonal Workers Pilot who have made a request to their pilot operator to change their employer I refer him to the response I gave to his question of 17 July (76041).

The UK operates a national immigration system. We do not break down the distribution of pilot workers within UK by geographic region.

The Home Office does not hold data on the numbers of individual growers that have participated in the pilot. We also do not hold data on the number of pilot workers who left the UK before the end of their visa in a reportable format. This information is recorded and held by the Scheme Operators

All pilot workers are provided with a contract, setting out their terms of employment. This must be provided in their native language. As part of this contract, the scheme operators are required to ensure pilot workers receive at least the national minimum wage for every week of their employment. The mechanism for achieving this, be it guaranteed payment or guaranteed hours of employment, is at the discretion of the scheme operators.

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