Owner of 2 Sisters and Bernard Matthews to recruit workers on temporary visas to assure festive demand
Britain’s biggest poultry producer is set to hire up to 900 temporary staff from overseas, under an emergency visa scheme introduced by ministers after concerns about a squeeze on labour leading to turkey shortages at Christmas.
Ranjit Singh Boparan, who is known as the chicken king because his companies produce around a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK, said the first workers would arrive in the next few days as it prepared for the busy festive season.
