New on the Israeli agriculture scene: The stealing of workers! Yisrael Shmidt, Director-General of the Organic Agriculture Organization, says that hundreds of foreign workers from Thailand have been enticed to run away from their bona-fide employers, causing both the workers and the employers major losses.
Shmidt emphasizes that although the \"robbers\" offer higher pay, they do not give social and medical benefits, such that the Thais do not gain anything by their \"defection.\" He demands that the Ministry of Labor increase the number of foreign workers allowed to each farmer. \"Organic farmers, whose work is particularly labor-intensive, are the first to suffer from the lack of Arab workers allowed in from the PA. Some of them have been left of late without any foreign workers at all. \"
Shmidt emphasizes that although the \"robbers\" offer higher pay, they do not give social and medical benefits, such that the Thais do not gain anything by their \"defection.\" He demands that the Ministry of Labor increase the number of foreign workers allowed to each farmer. \"Organic farmers, whose work is particularly labor-intensive, are the first to suffer from the lack of Arab workers allowed in from the PA. Some of them have been left of late without any foreign workers at all. \"