Strawberry farmers in the province of Huelva submitted a request for 19,000 Moroccan women farmers, under a fixed contract, to the central administration in preparation for the new season.
The agricultural contractors in the province estimated, during the 2018-2019 season, the needs of the market to 25,840 contract workers and issued a call for tenders for 22,500. Last year, the collective contract in Morocco has more than 16,391 proxies meeting.
Recall that the job interviews of Moroccan contract workers start in the third week of November. The schedule, validated by both parties, will begin to be implemented in December.
On December 15, the women workers, having already worked in Spain, will start arriving on the spot followed by the news which will begin arriving on January 15, 2020. The third group will arrive in Spain in February 2020 while the 4th will be on-site in March of the same year.
Last year, Spain agreed to hire over 10,000 Moroccan agricultural workers to pick berries for the April to June harvest season. In May, some Moroccan seasonal workers filed complaints against their employers for sexual assault.
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