How will the UK leaving the EU change the food industry?
A few things I'm fearful of:
Lack of staff (most Brits don't want to work in food factories, let's face it)
Impact on our image in the world
Potential export tariffs or restrictions
How food safety legislation will change (or will we have to accept EU rules without a seat at the table?)
Some of our staff are nervous about it all, we may lose some :crybaby:
I'm expecting the majority of EU legislation to just be renamed. There may be a few of our own thrown in for good measure but I don't see why we would bother changing a lot of it.
As for staff concerns, we have a small number of "foreigners" (they've been living here over ten years hence the " marks) but they all voiced their concern about their security this morning. Unfortunately no one had an answer for them. Without our contingent of foreign staff our company would be on its knees due to lack of hard-working British people we've had through the door for jobs in the recent past, so its really sad that they feel their employment is in jeopardy.
But I'm sure Messrs Gove Johnson and Farage have a plan for all that
But I'm sure Messrs Gove Johnson and Farage have a plan for all that
I'm sensing a tongue in cheek here...?
In all seriousness, I worry how this makes us look around the world. If you count up the people who were registered to vote and those who voted out, it was still a minority and within that subset of "leave" of course there are some racist nutters (they exist everywhere) but they again are in the small minority. I just hope people outside the UK don't see this as badly as they might.
A few things I'm fearful of:
Lack of staff (most Brits don't want to work in food factories, let's face it)
Impact on our image in the world
Potential export tariffs or restrictions
How food safety legislation will change (or will we have to accept EU rules without a seat at the table?)
Some of our staff are nervous about it all, we may lose some :crybaby:
Hi GMO, for what its worth my opinion.
I don't think any EU citizens currently working in the UK will be sent home and I can see that there will be a level of inward migration from the EU continuing. Maybe we can increase the minimum wage to a living wage that may motivate some of our unemployed to see employment as a worthwhile pursuit and get off benefits. Tariffs are possible, but we do a lot of importing from the EU and I'm sure any deal will aim to mitigate this. I don't see food safety legislation changing in the short term and we'll probably continue as we are.
It is a big unknown and very early day's, but change is never easy or without risk.
We are each currently in this process somewhere.
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From the sounds of it the politicians are beginning to accept it and now the long hard job of realizing it commences.
Regards,
Simon