33 Proposals
Time flies, Lin Yilong has been moving into Riverside Street for a while, and he and the Yeang sisters get along very well, Lin Yilong's housework is limited to making breakfast for the two sisters, occasionally putting clothes in the washing machine and turning the button; other things such as cleaning the house and cleaning the countertops are all done by the two sisters, in addition, the two sisters will also be responsible for Lin Yilong's dinner, mainly various thick soups and stews. Occasionally, if Lin was in a good mood, he would take them to some slightly extravagant Michelin-starred dinners near Mayfair. As for when to take down the Yeon sisters, Lin Yilong does not have a specific charter, and his life is once again dragged down by the business plan of the forest farm and the troubles of personnel recruitment.
It is not known when every EU plantation and forestry operator is required to fill out a detailed business plan form every year. In the view of the Ministry of Finance, the Royal Court and lawyers in Whitehall, the EU's plans for agriculture are not mandatory, but in order to record the basis of subsidies and tax refunds received by farmers, the county councils in each county require operators of the agricultural industry to submit a proposal for agricultural land use planning to the county council by the end of June – almost exactly the same as the EU business plan form.
Naturally, Lin Yilong, as the property owner, needs to fill out such a plan.
In order to prevent malicious competition in agricultural products in the EU, the European Commission subsidizes farmers and ranchers who do not operate on land every year, and the amount of subsidies is closely related to the content of the business plan submitted. The subsidy is not calculated according to the actual use of the land, but according to the area of arable land – just like Lin Yilong's forest farm, even if there is not much arable land and pasture, once he decides to fallow or promote "biodiversity", the annual agricultural subsidy he can receive is considerable. In other words, agricultural subsidies in Europe are not mainly set up to increase the income of farmers, but are set up to avoid malicious competition in the price of agricultural products within the EU, so as to "effectively increase farmers' incomes". For Lin Yilong, as long as the natural trees in the forest farm do not cause damage to the surrounding property, Lin Yilong can receive a net profit of nearly 200,000 pounds a year that is completely tax-free with the income of subsidies, which is much happier than the ordinary farmers who work hard to do farm work and grazing and sell more than 400,000 pounds of various manufactured products, but have a net income of less than 40,000 pounds a year.
Of course, this happiness is not in vain, if the trees are bent due to windy weather or hail, damage the property of neighbors, or cause inconvenience to others, Lin Yilong, as the property owner, will first claim the responsibility for poor maintenance, which requires him to find forest inspectors and forest farm workers after the withdrawal of the Royal Bird Protection Society.
Tree farm managers and workers in Britain and even in the Commonwealth do not receive a salary according to their education system and statutory employment requirements, as is the case on the other side of the pond [Note 1]. For example, the average ranch worker in Britain needs at least four different qualifications for grazing, and for the most common forest worker, they need a similar four certifications – for example, the use of chainsaws and gardening scissors requires a separate certificate to show that the worker is qualified, otherwise the employer will need to be sued by labour organisations and unions for illegal employment. In addition, as a property owner and an employer, if there are employees, they must also purchase employer's liability insurance in accordance with the labor law, and let the employees enjoy about 36 days of paid vacation per year in accordance with the statutory holiday arrangement. Farms in Britain, if not very necessary, are usually family farms, which can really reduce the cost of training and insurance.
If these regulations are found problematic, the appointment of a team of industrial workers or a contractor is an alternative – it should be noted that direct contact with labor dispatch does not relieve the property owner and the employer of direct responsibility, and since it does not relieve the workers of these troubles and does not directly instruct the workers to do the work, there are not many property owners who take the form of employment and expatriation.
None of the people in Lin Yilong's social circle had experience in the agricultural industry, and although he was a lawyer and familiar with labor regulations, he did not know how to choose the right employees for the forestry farm, so he could not give Lin Yilong any advice in this area. As for the human resources company, which is the provider of another forestry farm labor solution, there is no situation similar to Lin Yilong's specialized forestry farm.
The forest farm job provided by Lin Yilong is simple and simple, but difficult to say.
The reason for this is that there is no particularly technical work in the forest farm other than transplanting trees, pruning branches, cutting and cutting blocks, and the responsibility of the ranger is limited to making general rounds, inspections, and identifying common sense safety risks.
The difficulty of working on a forest farm lies in the planning of the forest farm, and the selection of trees and, very importantly, the prevention of tree diseases and invasive species, which can wipe out all the trees in an entire area in a matter of weeks.
There are no dedicated forest farm workers in the nearest town of Masach or even in the whole of West Glamorgan, the surrounding farms are traditional family farms, few employees are sought, and unemployed agricultural workers lack specialized forestry experience. Most of the people who can be found are horticultural workers, and even though most of them have the required logging certification, they rarely accept work on forest farms for profit reasons.
Lin had to recruit people all over Wales and Northern Ireland — Scotland and England forestry workers were reluctant to come to such a remote place — and the 10 people he had hoped for. According to Lin Yilong's own analysis, the main reason for this phenomenon is his reluctance to provide accommodation for forest farm workers in the forest farm.
In England and Wales, the accommodation provided to a farmworker is detrimental to the farmer's re-occupation of the rented house – even if the employment with the farmer is terminated (including retirement), the farmworker can continue to live in the rented house (low rent), and this protection of the tenant is extended to his wife/husband or other lover of equal status. Unless they can find a suitable place to live in the already crowded public rental housing of the county, they will hardly be able to get rid of it.
Therefore, Lin Yilong would never let anyone other than his immediate family get involved in his forest farm, and he would rather rent a few uninhabited houses in the small town of Mastak near the forest farm to provide free accommodation for the workers who come to work on the forest farm, rather than bear the shackles of "protecting the residential rights and interests of farm workers".