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Fri, 23 May, 2014 12:09:08 AM FTimes-STT Report, May 23  File picture of Thai berry-pickers at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. Photo- Lehtikuva. The Ministry of Employment and the Economy together with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has developed a factsheet on foreign berry-pickers by which they will be handed their visa decisions.
Finland’s embassy in Bangkok has limited fruit-buying companies’ entitlement to invite berry-pickers, if their activities in the past depict questionable traits.
It is estimated that about 5,000-6,000 berry-pickers will arrive in the country during the summer with about 75 to 80 per cent of them coming from Thailand.
According to the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, a decision is being awaited before summer from the Labour Council on whether or not the country’s labour laws will apply to the berry-pickers.
Thai berry-pickers in forest. Photo – Str / Lehtikuva. The goal is to support the cooperation between the companies and labour unions so that the pickers can earn a livelihood in appropriate conditions, said Labour Minister Lauri Ihalainen.
Markku Wallin, director-general at the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, who was charged with commissioning a report on the foreign forest berry-pickers, listed in the beginning of the year difficulties which the work entailed.
One of the ambiguities, according to the rapporteur, is that the pickers are not entitled to job security in the country and are neither considered employed nor self-employed.
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