Over 5,000 Thai labourers in Sweden and Finland to return home this month

[oldhippy]

My wife after a walk in the woods.

[Albert Zweistein]

16 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

Nobody own the woods? You can freely pick the berries as you want?

I ask just out of curiosity, as i don't really know how this business works

but it sounds very strange for me that Thais come that far to do it in the cold

and more than strange than the Thai governement asks to the ''employers'' to pay

for all the quarantaine bills after the work is done and the thais are back in Thailand

who are exactly these ''employers'' ?

Edit i have just seen your post, so it's a Dutch company, employing Thai people

to pick berries in the woods of Swedish and Finland, asked now by the thai govermement

to pay the quarantine bill for all the thai workers? Interesting...

Yes you can pick the berrie freely in the woods, in the past the locals use to do this but they are not interested any more. To hard work and little pay. No they are not employed by the Dutch company ( I know them ) but employed by a Thai ( state ? ) company and the Dutch hires the workforce from them. By the way it's Sweden and not Swedish, about that country I don't know, the info I tell you is about Finland

[oldhippy]

6 minutes ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

Well send them all to Australia they can make about 3000 dollars per week

Wages sure went up since my apple / apricot picking days down under.

OK - that was admittedly some time ago.

[Meat Pie 47]

1 minute ago, oldhippy said:

Wages sure went up since my apple / apricot picking days down under.

OK - that was admittedly some time ago.

Well we all suffer the farmers have to dumb most fruit and vegetables

because Australian people are to lazy to work

[DrTuner]

13 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

Nobody own the woods? You can freely pick the berries as you want?

Yes. Even if somebody does own the woods, there's a "everyman's right" in Finland where anybody can go pick. The majority rot in the woods because there's simply so much forest.

[Enki]

14 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

Nobody own the woods? You can freely pick the berries as you want?

I ask just out of curiosity, as i don't really know how this business works

but it sounds very strange for me that Thais come that far to do it in the cold

and more than strange than the Thai governement asks to the ''employers'' to pay

for all the quarantaine bills after the work is done and the thais are back in Thailand

who are exactly these ''employers'' ?

Edit i have just seen your post, so it's a Dutch company, employing Thai people

to pick berries in the woods of Swedish and Finland, asked now by the thai govermement

to pay the quarantine bill for all the thai workers? Interesting...

In most European countries, the majourity of the woods are owned by the state. And "farming companies" can license the right to harvest. Private persons are free to harvest e.g. mushrooms for personal use or small scale business. Ofc a farmer who owns woods, will probably delegate berry picking to such a company, too.

Important however is: if they are hired by a company, the company pays the minimum wage. Only "bonus" payment by kg, can exceed that.

 

And: in summer Scandinavia is anything but cold ... or do you think they pick frozen berries?

[DrTuner]

49 minutes ago, Enki said:

In most European countries, the majourity of the woods are owned by the state.

It's pretty common for forests to be privately owned in Finland, though. It comes with responsibilities to keep them maintained. Finland has a very advanced forestry industry, they've got it down right.