The producers of white bells struggle to complete their seasonal recruitment. As every year, several hundred foreign workers will get a work contract and help in the farms.
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“Take business that you can dirty. In the morning, it’s cold then brings a hot garment. And then look good the weather. It may rain some days.” This Monday, April 11 is the shot of Fire to the association Accompaniment migrant integration (friend), Nantes. Recruitment day for lily of the lily of the valley, often synonymous with first contract of employment, paid to the Gross Hours (Sunday and increased holiday), for foreigners with the status of refugees but not yet speaking fluently French to shine a wide palette jobs. A “boon” especially for recent asylum seekers in the territory, which can claim a prefectural derogation to fulfill this mission.
In fact, the picking of the lily of the valley, which brings together a fifteen independent producers in the Pays de la Loire, established essentially in Loire-Atlantique, suffers from a serious lack of labor. Nearly 7,000 seasonal are mobilized at the strongest in the countryside. The said campaign focuses on a dozen days and allows the production of 60 million strands, or 85% of the national market and a turnover of at least 20 million euros.
Supervision of the steps
Proof of tensions affecting the sector: the use of employment of 16-year-olds is validated. And the friend association is therefore “mandated” to find 400 seasonal foreign. For the time being, recruitment “cap” at 240 people. A large majority of Eritreans, Sudanese and Guineans. Few Ukrainian nationals at this point, often supported by another structure. A time, Catherine Libault, President and Founder of the Friend, believed that the authorities would undermine the action of his association. In early April, the prefecture dragged to deliver the work permits (the prefecture, questioned on this point, withdrawn behind the “reserve period” because of the elections).
The reality principle has prevailed and the friend’s experience has been recognized: because in addition to the establishment of cars leading candidates from the lily of the values, the association ensures upstream the supervision of the approaches The administrative of the candidates and then the signing of the contracts, operates the constitution of the teams and selects the induced profiles “cuveny leaders”.
“We feel that there are the elections because the climate has considerably hardened, blows M me libraffen. It was necessary to fight to show that the producers lacked arm and that without Foreigners, the job could not be done. “A race against the watch is committed by the end of April. Especially since the lily of the valley, this year, is early.