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An Indigenous Nursery Code of Practice DRAFT
The purpose of this code of practice is to provide a standard so that indigenous nurseries better service and reliability to customers (whether they pay or not).
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Please feel free to contribute your thoughts to this draft code of practice, respecting the thoughts of others who have contributed.
Florabank have developed a code of practice located here
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Purpose of code of practice
Hi,
What is the purpose of the code of practice? It seems to me to be relating to increasing professionalism within the industry. As such it seems strange that there is no section covering employment within the code.
Reliance on volunteer contributions within the industry is of course unavoidable in many indig nurseries at present. I believe that the input of volunteers however commendable (I am one myself) leads to an undervaluing of indigenous plants generally. There are few other professional business I can think of whose labour is predominantly provided free of charge.
Employees in indigenous nurseries can and should be held to different standards of performance than volunteers - itself a way of ensuring improved plant quality and professionalism within the industry. Employment can help ensure some kind of accountability for product within our nurseries.
If indigenous nurseries are to be professional, they need to operate in a similar manner to other businesses. They should spend a significant proportion of their overall income on employment (which is itself a community service). What do people think?
Daniel
Purpose of the code of practice
It's a good question about the purpose of the code. To my mind it's about providing better service and reliability to customers (whether they pay or not). I'll put a few sentences in about this purpose. Volunteers can be very professional in one sense, but in the sense you're talking about, paid professionals, there are plenty of community sectors of the community where volunteers make a huge contribution. I think the issue with volunteers is how to ensure they are not exploited. Daniel, why don't you start a section in the code on conditions for indig. nursery employees and volunteers? The section would have to discuss the spectrum from entirely voluntary operations for plants for use within a voluntary group, to fully commercial operations.