With border closures gutting traditional labour supplies, Ormond Nurseries, New Zealand Wineries and SLT have come up with a collaborative initiative that offers year-round work, via an intern scheme. A trio of Marlborough businesses are thinking outside the square and across the year, to help tackle seasonal labour issues. With border closures gutting traditional labour supplies, Ormond Nurseries, New Zealand Wineries and SLT have come up with a collaborative initiative that offers year-round work, via an intern scheme from vine to wine. The successful interns will work May to November at Ormond Nurseries, learning about vine propagation, before spending December to February with SLT, being trained on machinery for vineyard operations. I would be looking for a full time job first.”The vine to wine internship would give people security of consistent employment, while experiencing a broad range of wine industry work opportunities, says Dan Campbell from SLT, which uses cutting edge machinery in dozens of Marlborough vineyards.

Source: Stuff October 20, 2020 15:56 UTC