CREDIBLE reports have emerged over the past week of Queensland red meat processors offering significant financial inducements for meatworker staff employed elsewhere to leave their current place of work.
In further signs of the desperate state labour resourcing has reached in the Australian processing industry, one claim put to Beef Central last week suggested targets were being offered up to $3500 to ‘jump ship’ to work at a competitor’s nearby plant. That would be followed by a further $3500 if the employee was still working at the new plant after six months.
Beef Central has…
