Kazakhstani man says he regrets coming to UK for seasonal work, but employer refutes account of his experience
Ilyas said his target was to pick about 15 boxes of cherries a day, but if 10 cherries or more were bad the whole box could be rejected.Ilyas said his target was to pick about 15 boxes of cherries a day, but if 10 cherries or more were bad the whole box could be rejected.It had been a sweltering morning picking cherries beneath plastic polytunnels in July when Ilyas finally lost his temper at the farm where he was working in Kent.
In a video recorded at the farm, Ilyas can be seen confronting a supervisor. He says “you treat us like animals” and that he had not signed up to “these unrealistic targets”. Ilyas, 32, had been working on British farms since March after coming to the UK on a seasonal worker visa. As an educated IT worker, he was willing to try something different since he had the potential to earn more than double his Kazakhstani salary of about £830 a month.
Port said the average across 250 staff was for three trays of cherries to be picked an hour and that Ilyas worked for 4.75 hours and picked an average of 0.8 an hour. He said experienced pickers were set the target of 3.5 trays an hour and that other new pickers in Ilyas’s team achieved an average of 1.5 trays an hour.
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