Pacific businesses lack staff as workers leave for Australia and New Zealand
In 2022, more than 6,600 workers left Samoa for seasonal worker programs; this was double the number leaving before the pandemic. This means that local business are seeing staff shortages.
For instance, over the past year, Tuiataga Nathan Bucknall, general manager of an exclusive resort on Taumeasina Island near Apia, Samoa, lost nearly 60 staff – about one-third of the number
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