A sausage manufacturer warned about food shortages in December as businesses struggle to find employees after Brexit. To help find more work, prisoners will be paid to fill in for the gaps in staff.
Heck, a sausage giant, is using prisoners to address the post-Brexit labor shortage.
Andrew Keeble, the founder, warned of food shortages as businesses struggle to find employees this Christmas and urged that the Government take action.
His firm is under pressure and he has begun to recruit and pay serving prisoners for roles in marketing, dispatch and distribution.
They are able to acquire skills and qualifications that will allow them to find work after they have been released.
Andrew has also been visiting towns near the firm’s HQ in Bedale, North Yorks, in a bid to find staff.
He stated that: “The biggest issue in the food and supply industry is recruitment. There is no doubt that lots of prisoners would make great drivers, butchers, bakers, and chefs.”
Heck, the UK’s largest independent sausage maker, follows in the footsteps of Timpsons, which has been giving jobs to lags since 2002.
Boss Sir John Timpson said that the company has 600 employees who are all employed by the company. “experienced time in prison”.
This week, he spoke to The Grocer and stated: “It will reduce the number of prisoners who re-offend and cut the vast cost of our prosecution and prison service.
“Drug dealers are successful – they are very commercial.”
The firm does not employ sex offenders or arsonists for insurance purposes.