The network of temporary accommodation set up in Jaén for the start of the olive season has recorded a first week occupancy rate of 63%, a figure the government of Andalucia as ‘pleasantly surprising’.
The government has been carrying out a campaign, in various languages, warning that foreign labour would not be required for this year’s olive harvest. The idea this year is to use local labour and to take people out of unemployment rather than, as normally happens, hiring in massive amounts of immigrant labour.
The period allowed for stays in the temporary accommodation has also been reduced from five days to three days.