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Seasonal Workers

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Seasonal work

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About the work

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]We grow top quality strawberries, we normally pick our fruit between April and November each year but we cannot harvest our fruit without good pickers. While you may be on a working holiday, we are not a holiday camp and expect all of our employees to work hard. However, life is not about all work and no play: we provide you with excellent leisure and recreation facilities.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Every year we employ about 300 seasonal workers, who come from 3 different countries, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. We can only employ workers who have the right to work in the UK. Some employees are invited back for another season having proved themselves in the previous season to be reliable and hardworking individuals. The returnees in turn set an example for new workers with regards to work practice and life in England.

Most of the work will be picking fruit by hand in covered tunnels, which provide protection from wind and weather. Once the fruit is picked it is checked for quality on the field and then transported to our pack house and put into our big fridge within 2 hours of being picked. This ensures our high-quality standards are maintained.
The work is very hard and involves much bending, twisting and lifting so you will need to have good physical fitness.

You will work in a team of up to 50 people. In addition to picking fruit, there are other tasks such as tunnel construction, irrigation installation, maintenance, husbandry and general production work that has to be undertaken throughout the year.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1523956186167{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_raw_html]JTNDaHIlM0U=[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1523956322069{margin-bottom: 80px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1523955977371{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”][vc_column_text]

Table Tops

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”2012″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”left-to-right”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]All of our production is now grown in substrate and on table tops. This allows us to precisely monitor and control the growing conditions and most importantly allows easy access for picking the fruit. These speeds up the process and eliminates all bending over to pick the crop, ensuring a great working environment for all.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

Hours of work

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”2013″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]We normally work a five or six-day week for no more than 8 hours per day. The hours you will work each day is determined by crop, weather and customer demand. Your harvest manager decides on the length of the working day and no harvesting takes place unless the field assistants are present.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1523954022456{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;background-color: #f4f2ec !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]

Pay

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The majority of the work on our farm is paid on a piecework basis. Piecework means you get paid for every kilogramme of fruit that you pick. The harder you work the more you will be paid. This system means that you could earn more than the UK minimum hourly rate of pay as determined by the UK agricultural wages board.

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We recommend that you open a bank account in your own country before leaving so that you can arrange credit transfers direct to that account whilst you are in the UK. When you arrive at the farm you will be issued pre-paid Barclaycard which will enable you to withdraw your money from the bank`s cash machine and pay in the shops. The UK bank system is very safe and secure. Wages are normally paid directly into your bank account once a week or when you leave the farm, or on request.

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Location

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]The Homme, Hom Green, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire HR9 7TF

E.C. Drummond is located at The Homme in Hom Green, Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire HR9 7TF. We are a 5-minute drive from the bottom of the M50 motorway[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1523955923396{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1523956018958{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1523960075510{background-color: #f4f2ec !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1523954040531{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]

Road

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]M50 Motorway Junction – 4.4 miles (7.1 km)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1523960066623{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-color: #f4f2ec !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1523953703886{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]

By train

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Nearest station is Hereford – 13 miles (20.8km)
Alt Gloucester Station – 15.4 miles (24.8 km)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1523960059978{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-color: #f4f2ec !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1523953665590{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]

Air

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]London Heathrow – 118.4 miles (166km)
Birmingham Int’l – 45 miles (72k)
Bristol airport – 40 miles (64.4 km)
Cardiff airport – 42 miles (67.2 km)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_gmaps link=”#E-8_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”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1523959536456{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;background-color: #f4f2ec !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1523954961595{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]

Worker Representation

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It is of utmost importance to the Farm Directors and Managers that we receive feedback about what we undertake and whether there are issues associated with our actions.

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We request that all functional areas identify a worker to represent them at a Steering Group meeting which is held every two weeks. 
This provides all workers the ability to raise points both positive and negative through the Steering Group to Directors and Managers.

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E.C Drummond is at its heart, and always has been, a family business.

Homme Farm, Ross-on-Wye HR9 7TF

 Phone: 01989 764328

 Fax: 01989 763576

 Email: info@ecdrummond.co.uk

 

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European funding for Reservoir and Rainwater Harvesting

European Agriculture Fund for Rural Development for the building of a reservoir under the RPA’s Countryside Productivity Scheme