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Speaker 1: Ever, dupe Ellen and the closure of Timrouse Smithfield meet

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Speaker 1: Works is our loss, but apparently Australia's Gain Alliance Group

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Speaker 1: has confirmed that the processing plant will close by the

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Speaker 1: end of the year. This means the vast majority of

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Speaker 1: its six hundred staff will be made redundant, but the

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Speaker 1: Aussies have seen this as an opportunity. Two recruiters flew

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Speaker 1: across the ditch to try and poach workers at today's meeting.

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Speaker 1: Managing director of f S Alliance Wayne here it is

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Speaker 1: one of them.

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Speaker 2: Hey Wayne, good morning, good afternoon. How are you. Oh?

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Speaker 1: I'm well. But this is a bit cheeky from you guys,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, a little bit of an opportunistic thing. We hope,

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Speaker 2: I hope there's a win win situation. But yeah, it

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Speaker 2: could be seen as a bit a bit cheeky, but

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Speaker 2: there's a good opportunity there and we've taken it.

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Speaker 1: How many of these guys have you got jobs for?

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Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, there are jobs over there for

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Speaker 2: say at least two hundred people. We haven't been very

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Speaker 2: successful as yet. We've just really started to talk to

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Speaker 2: people today, but well, yeah, we'd like to take anywhere

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Speaker 2: between fifty to two hundred people back with us eventually.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And what's the pay rate like with you guys

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Speaker 1: compared to what they get paid here.

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Speaker 2: Well, I would think would be pretty pretty much the

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Speaker 2: same when all things are taken into account. Where our

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Speaker 2: top earners would be on about an annual annualized salary

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Speaker 2: of about eighty thousand dollars Australian, and the starting rate

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Speaker 2: is around about fifty thousand. Maybe for a new entrant

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Speaker 2: worker it would be forty five, but forty five to

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Speaker 2: eighty thousand. There are fellows up there who are earning

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Speaker 2: up to one hundred thousand dollars. They're the A grade

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Speaker 2: slaughter them and the bonus. But in all I think

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Speaker 2: it's about the same same wages, cost of living is

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Speaker 2: approximately the same, so it's almost a fairly seamless transition. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: good sense.

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Speaker 1: You know it's better for them to get it, even

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Speaker 1: if it's an Australia then sit on the doll Wayne.

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Speaker 1: So I'm pleased to hear. This is Wain Hear, a

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Speaker 1: director of Australian Meatworks recruiting and training organization, and the

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Speaker 1: place is based out of Warwick. And I've got a

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Speaker 1: text Fromkaren saying Warwick is a great place to live.

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Speaker 1: The guys will like it there if they're okay to move.

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Speaker 1: Good schools for the kids too, So.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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