After the end of many Corona restrictions, the operators lack the employees for the service in hotels and restaurants. There are tens of thousands of vacancies across Germany.
The German hospitality industry is still short of numerous workers months after the pandemic lockdowns in the corona crisis. That comes from figures from the Federal Employment Agency.
The situation leads in part to the thinning of the service in the companies up to closings, complains the hotel and restaurant association Dehoga. According to the figures from the Federal Agency, the number of vacancies in the catering industry has practically doubled since April. In August, innkeepers reported 20,686 vacancies across Germany, hoteliers a further 7,678 vacancies. In April the number in the catering trade was 10,977 in the catering trade and 4,138 in the hotels.
At the same time, the number of unemployed in the industry has fallen significantly – within one year from 72,397 in August 2020 to 54,658 in August 2021 in the catering industry. At the hotels, the number of unemployed fell from 35,258 to 28,545 over the same period.
The situation on the training market is particularly drastic: Almost 17,000 company training positions in the hotel and catering industry are compared to only 5409 applicants (previous year: 7,276). Thousands of apprenticeships are vacant.
The food, enjoyment, and restaurants union also attributes the shortage of staff to the poor image of the industry among employees. “The causes are low wages, unpaid overtime, no reliable working hours, poor quality of training, escape from collective agreements,” judged the union. “Currently only around a third of the companies are bound by collective bargaining agreements and then usually only pay the statutory minimum wage,” said a spokesman.
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