Post-election and post Brexit most of the UK seems pleased that the political furore seen towards the end of last year has quietened. And while most of the UK has settled down, a new body in Northern Ireland has emerged to combat the risk to the region’s people and skills shortages in hospitality and tourism. The new employer network HATS (Hospitality and Tourism Skills) is … [Read more...]
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Rocco Forte donates £10,000 to support staunch Brexiteer Steve Baker’s electioneering plans
By Denis Sheehan FIH Steadfast pro-Brexiteer Rocco Forte, who funded Boris Johnson’s run for PM and then hosted a lavish £12,000 victory party to celebrate his win, is now funding another staunch Brexiteer Steve Baker in the next election reports in The Guardian confirm this morning. Forte distanced himself from the party a little while ago after repeatedly expressing … [Read more...]
The good, the bad, and the Minister’s spectacular road to Damascus on Brexit
By Denis Sheehan MIH The perceived culture of our industry is uplifted when employers instil policies that treat people well, not only do they enhance their own reputation, but the industry’s also. Likewise, when the opposite plays out, the outcome is also reversed. Since the end of the pandemic, hospitality has endured ongoing people and skills shortages that limit … [Read more...]
How hospitality is battling its people problem
By Emma Eversham: How hospitality is battling its people problem. As hospitality continues to be plagued by worker shortages, Emma Eversham finds out how some operators are filling vacancies – and keeping their hard-won recruits. Recruiting and retaining enough people to work in the UK’s hospitality industry has been a challenge for decades, but in May 2022 the … [Read more...]
Hoteliers urge Government to relax post-Brexit rules to aid the UK recruitment crisis
By Angela Green, Content Executive: Hoteliers urge Government to relax post-Brexit rules to aid the UK recruitment crisis. Hotel News is sponsored by HotelPartner UK Bristol hoteliers are urging the Government to relax some of the post-Brexit rules which have hindered their ability to recruit in recent years. A combination of the impact of Brexit, coupled with the pandemic … [Read more...]
Public Evidence Session hears how travel chaos is due to government inaction on Brexit
By Denis Sheehan, Publisher, H&C News: Public Evidence Session hears how travel chaos is due to government inaction on Brexit. Travel and hospitality are inextricably linked, tourists travel to the UK in search of hospitality. But as the summer season now approaches full swing, tourists continue to battle with travel to the UK severely disrupted. Most … [Read more...]
Rwanda policy reinforcing Brexit’s damage to hospitality
By Denis Sheehan, Publisher, H&C News: Rwanda policy reinforcing Brexit’s damage to hospitality. London for many years was widely acknowledged as one of if not the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, a status that drove many economic benefits not least the desire of businesses and people from around the world to live and work there. This enviable status … [Read more...]
EFRA Report: A damming indictment of Government’s post-Brexit immigration policy
By Denis Sheehan, Publisher, H&C News: EFRA Report: A damming indictment of Government's post-Brexit immigration policy. The latest Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Report on labour shortages in the food and farming sector was published yesterday, under the stark headline: “Government failure to tackle labour shortages will shrink food sector permanently, … [Read more...]
Brexit, twice as bad as Covid, a disaster for climate change, and for hospitality procurement
The hospitality industry has been at the forefront of developing policies recognising the importance of sustainability. Driven by understanding customers will spend more on sustainable hospitality. As hospitality businesses and the millions of people working with them, hopefully, continue to emerge and work through the coronavirus pandemic, they do so very much weaker from it. … [Read more...]
The British Chambers of Commerce call out government’s lack of any Brexit business planning
The British Chambers of Commerce has made a clear statement to government criticising a lack of any planning for the consequences resulting from excluding non UK nationals from the UK workforce. President, Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE said: “Government has made clear its priority is to transition from a reliance on EU workers to a focus on the domestic workforce, … [Read more...]
More wage increases announced as people and skills shortages tighten
By Denis Sheehan Itsu, the Asian restaurant and retail chain has announced their employees will get an 11% wage increase from tomorrow, taking pay well above the National Living Wage. The increase will boost entry-level pay to a minimum £10.40 per hour across the chain for 1,000 employees at the company's 72 UK outlets. The announcement follows many others as … [Read more...]
Home Secretary provides solution to hospitality’s people and skills crisis
By: Denis Sheehan, Publisher, H&C News The government were elected on one simple phrase, Get Brexit Done. A message that resonated to such a degree it smashed down the great red wall of the north. It was a simple message and intentionally so. Their message, and who it was aimed at is potentially explained through the video below. Please do watch before you read on … [Read more...]
KFC menu reduced nationwide due to food shortages
KFC have today announced on twitter reduced menus nationwide due to shortages in the supply of food. This is undoubtedly the first of many such announcements as the shortage of HGV drivers and the subsequent gap in food and drink deliveries to hospitality businesses grows. Unless demand eases, which it will not during the summer holiday season, food shortages will … [Read more...]
Hospitality employers need to engage with employing young people
Article By: Jennifer Johansson, CEO Placed App A-level results day is a milestone moment in the UK. This year, after the chronic havoc of the pandemic and the disruption of lockdowns, A-level results day is likely to be even more emotional than usual for young people and their families. Although there is a record number of university applications this year – 43.9% of … [Read more...]
Following end of inquiry into Brexit benefits, new disadvantages inquiry opens
Article by: Denis Sheehan, Publisher, H&C News When I published ‘Brexit benefits to hospitality’ it was picked up and tweeted by LBC Radio’s James O’Brien and political commentator Marina Purkiss (thank you both). Both have twitter accounts that enjoy substantial followings, 812,000 and 59,000 respectively, and more importantly both enjoy even higher levels of … [Read more...]