Fernando Borja shares recruiting experience with Guatemalan workers

23/10/2023 12 min
Fernando Borja shares recruiting experience with Guatemalan workers

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Episode Synopsis

FERME Québec, a non-profit agency, was responsible for bringing more than 16,000 temporary foreign workers from Guatemala to the province in 2023.

The Grower is Digging Deeper behind the November 2023 cover story titled 'Guatemalan workers bridge the labour gap for Québec growers'. We are speaking with FERME Québec executive director Fernando Borja. He explains that a pilot program has worked well with El Salvador. And that more efforts are underway with the French-speaking African country of Madagascar.