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A Bay of Plenty packhouse has revealed today it will pay a living wage to fulltime permanent staff - affecting more than 30 employees.
Apata, a kiwifruit and avocado post harvest company, announced its decision this morning.
Apata's managing director, Stuart Weston, said the decision to embrace the living wage concept is part of a wider wellbeing programme which the company initiated last year.
"One of our company values is that we are a family and we look after each other. So we challenged ourselves and decided we weren't really acting out that value as well as we could.