A new report by Caterer.com has shown how Brexit forced more than 93,000 EU workers to leave the UK hospitality industry over the past 12 months. The Report - Hospitality Hiring Insider: analysed thousands of vacancies and applications as well as gathering the views of 250 hospitality employers and 2,0000 consumers. The first report of its kind gauging views from … [Read more...]
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School leavers, part of the answer to hospitality’s people and skills shortages
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...]
Next generation hospitality people are digital natives, politically progressive, and embrace diversity
It is all too easy not to recognise and react to change. Change indicators for some need to be repeated ad infinitum, with words and pictures more often than not insufficient, some pain needs to be brought into the equation. People and skills shortages in hospitality have inflicted much pain on many operators, examples are numerous with no business immune. The situation has … [Read more...]
The role of apprenticeships in addressing hospitality’s people and skills shortage
By: Adele Oxberry, CEO and Founder, Umbrella Training With hospitality vacancies at an all-time high it’s no secret that the sector has been among the worst hit by the pandemic. As the skills gap continues to grow, apprenticeships offer an opportunity to mould the next generation of talent. New analysis by UKHospitality, the leading trade group that represents … [Read more...]
IoH backs the CBI’s call on government to temporarily ease post-Brexit immigration rules
The Confederation of British Industry, the UK’s foremost business lobby group has called on government to temporarily ease post-Brexit immigration rules to help businesses struggling with acute people and skills shortages. The CBI states that government needs to immediately update its ‘shortage occupations list’ to include areas where employers are finding it difficult to … [Read more...]
Pied à Terre announces closed for lunch due to people and skills shortage crisis
David Moore, founder of one of London’s oldest Michelin-starred restaurants, Pied à Terre, has made the difficult decision to close for lunch until further notice due to recruitment problems caused by Brexit and Covid. From this Saturday. The Fitzrovia restaurant which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, will no longer open for lunch in order to protect the welfare … [Read more...]
Michel Roux Jr forced to reduce opening times due to people and skills shortages
The message below is an email sent today to diners who have booked lunch at Le Gavroche from Michel Roux Jr. To our much loved Le Gavroche guests, As you are all more than aware, the past year has sadly taken a great toll on the hospitality industry, but with restaurants finally being allowed to re-open to everybody’s relief there is still a trickle effect of major problems … [Read more...]
Covid unveils the reality of Brexit for hospitality
Hospitality's people and skills shortages laid dormant throughout the Covid pandemic, now, those issues have reawakened, all too rudely. If anyone needs background on the current people and skills problem, and the looming catastrophe associated with it… here’s our take on it and that of several industry leaders. If that’s not enough here’s more in The Guardian, or here’s … [Read more...]
Economic institutions join national radio in addressing concerns that Brexit will limit hospitality and staycations
Last week LBC presenter James O’Brien dedicated an hour of current affairs broadcasting to address the people and skills shortages in hospitality. Unusual, but on the money, as the shortages not only limit the ability of UK hospitality businesses to provide staycations, but also the ability of people wanting a holiday in the UK to enjoy one. Details of the radio show are … [Read more...]
Looming people and skills shortage will take a solution never before identified to remedy
Pizza Express are currently looking to recruit circa 1,000 people to meet demand when hospitality reopens indoors on 17 May. They are struggling to do so, as are countless other employers in hospitality. It’s not just the big name employers that are having difficulty either. Switching your twitter or Facebook feed on in recent days sees small independents struggling with … [Read more...]
Brexit supply chain chaos now looking Machiavellian
If a writer of political fiction depicted the current state of affairs, or affairs of state we as a nation currently face, adding a mind numbingly complex Brexit scenario into the script would seem to stretch the imagination too far, but here we are. Amidst the greatest threat to the economy and health of the nation the very last thing needed is Brexit, and what Brexit is … [Read more...]
A chronological view of the impact assessments of Brexit on the UK hospitality industry
The UK Brexit referendum took place on 23rd June 2016 and the result shocked many across the UK, across Europe and the world. For the last three and a half years countless forecasts have tried to predict the effect of Brexit on the UK. We are still today however looking at a myriad of possibilities and the forthcoming general election is possibly the most complex and … [Read more...]
Priti Patel accused live on BBC of laughing at industry bodies Brexit concerns
Yesterday, live on Andrew Marr’s BBC Sunday morning political show, partway through Mr Marr reading out a list of business groups who have raised concerns in a letter to the government about a no-deal Brexit, Mr Marr said to Priti Patel: “I can’t see why you are laughing.” You can see in the video below that Ms Patel in reaction to recognising Marr’s comment stops … [Read more...]
The imminent Brexit threat to UK hospitality’s essential transient workforce
Hospitality businesses in the UK rely upon a transient workforce that works very effectively for both employees and employers. The seasonality of many parts of the hospitality sector where staff need to be recruited in waves suits people looking for temporary work. Hospitality businesses that see significant uplift in guests throughout the summer from tourism need staff to … [Read more...]
Brexit minimum salary threshold for EU migrants a Tory leadership battleground
Sajid Javid is planning to try to scrap plans that recommended EU migrants must earn £30k to work in a post Brexit Britain, a plan we applaud. Unfortunately, the salary threshold for EU migrants debate is now looking like a political football or bargaining chip that will be used by tory leadership hopeful’s, Mr Javid being one of them. Javid has written to the Migration … [Read more...]