Colette Roberts Risden, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour - Gleaner file photo
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Colette Roberts Risden, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour
By Prince Moore
The Ministry of Labour is reporting fewer Jamaicans leaving the country to participate in the Seasonal Farm Workers Programme.
This comes even as the Canadian government announced that it is reducing by tens of thousands, the number of temporary foreign workers.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry Colette Roberts Risden told Radio Jamaica News that the decline has been recorded between 2022 and this year.
She said the reduction is due in part to several areas of the programme which need improvement.
"We need to improve on the worker attitude, the quality of our workers going to Canada and we also have to recognise that Jamaica is one of many countries vying for those jobs in Canada and the Canadian farmer does have choices in terms of where they recruit workers from."
"So while we recognise that Jamaican workers perform maybe two or three times what one worker from another country will do, Jamaica is not the only supply country and we have to work to improve the quality of our workers, secure more jobs and to get those numbers up to where they were in 2022," she insisted.
Almost 9,000 Jamaican farm workers are part of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme in Canada.
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