The reality for day laborers during the olive harvest: 57 euros a day, "tainted" seasonal contracts, and having to find housing "for a month and a half"

During the olive harvesting campaign, agricultural day laborers face precarious working and living conditions, earning a daily wage of 57 euros that does not guarantee receiving the full interprofessional minimum wage at the end of the month. According to José Hurtado, general secretary of CC, a 'day wage' system is applied to these workers.

In addition to wage concerns, the laborers struggle with short-term housing challenges, having to find a place to live for only a month and a half. Compounding these issues are employment contracts that are described as 'contaminated' fixed-discontinuous agreements, highlighting systemic labor difficulties within the seasonal agricultural sector.