Farmers are having to negotiate with potential employees on incentives such sign-on bonuses, flexible working arrangements and increased annual leave as Australia’s jobs crisis intensifies.
Leading agribusiness recruiter Nigel Crawley told The Australian Ag Podcast, out today, the incentives have been forced on employers as demand for on-farm workers hits the highest level in his 20 years in the business.
Mr Crawley said while corporate agribusinesses were looking to shore up their worker needs through graduate programs, in the short term “organisations are doing anything they can to…
