Gimhae City Actively Promotes Rural Workforce Brokerage During Raspberry Harvest Season

Gimhae City, Gyeongnam Province, has taken steps to resolve labor issues through the Rural Workforce Brokerage Center as the raspberry harvesting season arrives. [Image source=Gimhae City]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Sang-hyun] Gimhae City, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 1st that it is making every effort to mediate agricultural labor through the Rural Workforce Mediation Center to alleviate labor shortages on farms during the wild raspberry harvesting season.

Since March, the city has mediated over 6,000 workers to more than 100 farms in three months through the Rural Workforce Mediation Center, assisting with agricultural tasks such as harvesting strawberries, tomatoes, blueberries, and performing pollination work for persimmons.

In addition to labor mediation, the city supports workers by providing accident insurance for agricultural work, transportation costs for commuting workers, and education expenses, so farms only need to cover workers' wages.

Furthermore, the city establishes workforce allocation plans for each farm, visits agricultural sites to manage labor and handle administrative paperwork, thereby easing the burden of labor shortages on farms.

Urban residents seeking agricultural work and farms can visit the Gimhae City Workforce Mediation Center located in Daeseong-dong or apply for recruitment and job seeking by phone, with no mediation fees charged.

Kim Sang-jin, Director of the Agricultural Technology Center, said, “As the peak wild raspberry harvesting season approaches, we will actively support agricultural labor so that all farms can harvest wild raspberries stably.”

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