seasonality of employment

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Employing Workers

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Employing Workers.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

The agricultural sector faces unique challenges regarding seasonality of employment, migration, working conditions and employment laws and policies, coupled with the fact that such a large percentage of the adult labor force are engaged in agriculture. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Employing Workers highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments in starting an agribusiness.  

 

 

 

AgCLIR Chapter: Employing Workers

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Significant employment in agriculture is seasonal and informal. Employment laws and policies are often misinterpreted as irrelevant in much of the sector; however, for seasonal agricultural labor markets to operate efficiently, workers must have the ability to move among agricultural jobs and/or to pursue non-farm employment or entrepreneurial activities intermittently or simultaneously with their agricultural employment.

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