Spain: The number of hired laborers originally totaled 2,120

Representing a 2.16% of laborers employed in Strawberry during the months of the 2015 campaign, a total of 60,000.

The number of laborers hired originally totaled 2,120, representing 2.16% of the total laborers employed in Strawberry during the months of the 2015 campaign, a total of 60,000, according to the deputy of the Government in Huelva, Enrique Perez Viguera, who chaired the Provincial Monitoring Committee of the Convention for the Planning, Coordination and Integration of Migration Flows Socio Agricultural Campaign Season.

Contracted originally from Morocco are temporary, repeaters more than two years and have met the commitment to return to their country of origin, making them labor-fidelizada and 237 specialized companies in the sector work.

This figure is far from the 30,000 contracts in the strawberry sector origin retain trust in 2009 to meet the manpower needs of the campaign and covered with mainly from Eastern Europe.

This decline has had much to do the economic crisis in Spain and rising unemployment has meant that in recent years has given priority to local labor.

Something that will continue this year, as Pérez Viguera has asked the Huelva agriculture “total commitment to local workers, as it has done so the Government of Spain to decide that in 2015 there were no contingent of foreign workers for the sole order to encourage the hiring of local workers. ”

Regarding the next phase of planting, migration commission gave the green light to the proposal of deputy Minister not to authorize any contract in origin.

Thus, planting is carried out exclusively by local workers, whether foreigners with their situation regularized in the country or nationals.

This will be the fifth consecutive year that takes place this measure, after the recruitment of 972 originally allowed Moroccan laborers in 2010, of which 860 eventually hired for the work of planting, tasks that develop normally between the months of October and November and it employs thousands of workers in the field.