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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Emily Dugan

Hundreds of Indonesian fruit pickers in UK seek diplomatic help

The seasonal worker visa allows people to come to the UK for up to six months and work but there is no guarantee of employment for that period.
The seasonal worker visa allows people to come to the UK for up to six months and work but there is no guarantee of employment for that period. Photograph: SNS Group

More than 200 Indonesian fruit pickers have sought diplomatic help since July after facing difficulties working in Britain this season, the nation’s embassy has revealed.

The Guardian has spoken to a pair of workers sent to a farm in Scotland that supplies berries to M&S, Waitrose, Tesco and Lidl. They claim pickers were sent back to the caravan if they could not work fast enough and left with large debts to repay.

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