Increase the RSE annual quota

Increase the RSE annual quota, reiterates Samoa PM Tuilaepa

The 11,000 quota includes all RSE workers from Samoa and nine other Pacific Island Forum countries such as Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands etc. participating in the temporary employment program to cater for New Zealand’s horticulture and viticulture labour demands.

But talks in Wellington this week, Tuilaepa had raised the quota issue with New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Vaovasamanaia Winston Peters.