{"id":52203,"date":"2023-01-29T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/29\/a-very-big-gap-pacific-businesses-desperate-for-staff-as-workers-leave-for-australia-and-new-zealand"},"modified":"2023-01-29T04:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:00:29","slug":"a-very-big-gap-pacific-businesses-desperate-for-staff-as-workers-leave-for-australia-and-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52203","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A very big gap\u2019: Pacific businesses desperate for staff as workers leave for Australia and New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year more than 6,600 workers left Samoa for seasonal worker programs, double the number leaving before the pandemic<\/p>\n<p>For most visitors to the exclusive resort on Taumeasina Island near Apia, Samoa, it is the golden sands and tropical waters that appeal. But for others, the real attraction may be the resort\u2019s staff themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Business people from Australia and New Zealand often stay at the resort while visiting Samoa in search of workers to recruit for seasonal jobs back home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/29\/a-very-big-gap-pacific-businesses-desperate-for-staff-as-workers-leave-for-australia-and-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year more than 6,600 workers left Samoa for seasonal worker programs, double the number leaving before the pandemicFor most visitors to the exclusive resort on Taumeasina Island near Apia, Samoa, it is the golden sands and tropical waters that app&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3539,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,936,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-samoa","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52204,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52203\/revisions\/52204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}