ShaunJudgeDuvall
10th February 2006, 11:00 AM
Hello all,
This is Shaun in Wisconsin. I am interested in employee selection practices in other dairies. Here in the Midwest, the overwhelming majority of dairies find and hire new employees (here I am referring to latino primarily Mexican employees) based on the recommendation of current employees.
What happens is that many of these people must live together in the same employer provided housing, they tend to get family members, friends or people from their same communities back in Mexico. If someone is planning to leave or go on vacation for a while, the employer asks them to provide a replacement. This seems to work very well here. The people get along better, and as they have to live in the same home, and work with each other, it makes sense that they should have some control of who is the new hire.
Many of the people who work on our dairies are people who are recently arrived in the States, and who truly don't plan on staying here permanently. Having family members and folks from your community provides a security that is reassuring to employees, especially in our traditionally very ethnically homogeneous rural communities. It also seems to me to be similar to the patterns of rural communities in Mexico, where the family/community is the basic unit of protection.
I wonder what some of the others think about this, and if they have any other types of employee selection.
Gracias,
Shaun
This is Shaun in Wisconsin. I am interested in employee selection practices in other dairies. Here in the Midwest, the overwhelming majority of dairies find and hire new employees (here I am referring to latino primarily Mexican employees) based on the recommendation of current employees.
What happens is that many of these people must live together in the same employer provided housing, they tend to get family members, friends or people from their same communities back in Mexico. If someone is planning to leave or go on vacation for a while, the employer asks them to provide a replacement. This seems to work very well here. The people get along better, and as they have to live in the same home, and work with each other, it makes sense that they should have some control of who is the new hire.
Many of the people who work on our dairies are people who are recently arrived in the States, and who truly don't plan on staying here permanently. Having family members and folks from your community provides a security that is reassuring to employees, especially in our traditionally very ethnically homogeneous rural communities. It also seems to me to be similar to the patterns of rural communities in Mexico, where the family/community is the basic unit of protection.
I wonder what some of the others think about this, and if they have any other types of employee selection.
Gracias,
Shaun