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Social protection
Restructuring, aided by new production technology and distribution as well as efforts to minimize labour cost, has mainly been responsible for the trend towards increased flexibility in these industries. Today, a growing proportion of the workforce is recruited as temporary, casual, part-time, seasonal and contract workers. These workers enjoy little job security or the social protection granted to regular staff, though many of them work nearly as many hours if not more. Despite increased automation, meat, poultry, and fish processing remain labour-intensive, both in industrialized and developing countries.
Vulnerable groups
In many countries today, major food-processing companies still draw their workers from among minorities, new immigrants, refugees, and women, many of whom are employed in food and drink processing in Export Processing Zones
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Accident rates
Accident rates are among the highest in the meat-processing and packing sector in all countries including certain industrialized countries. At the same time, social protection measures and worker compensation provisions are sub-standard in some of these countries.
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