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Over 100 Kenyans recruited to ease hospitality staff shortages in the Channel Islands

28 January 2022 by

A recruitment firm claims to have eased the hospitality staff shortage in the Channel Islands by hiring more than 100 people from Kenya over the past year.

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Rosa's Thai launches chef training programme paying £11.45 an hour

27 January 2022 by

Rosa’s Thai has launched a chef training programme paying £11.45 per hour in a bid to boost recruitment across its restaurants.

Sunny Hodge launches petition to extend skilled working visas to hospitality News

Sunny Hodge launches petition to extend skilled working visas to hospitality

26 January 2022 by
Staffing difficulties experienced by 83% of hospitality businesses News

Staffing difficulties experienced by 83% of hospitality businesses

13 January 2022 by
Viewpoint: we must learn lessons from Europe to improve hospitality’s staffing crisis Business

Viewpoint: we must learn lessons from Europe to improve hospitality’s staffing crisis

16 December 2021 by
Hospitality Rising recruitment campaign launches £5m fundraise News

Hospitality Rising recruitment campaign launches £5m fundraise

18 November 2021 by

Viewpoint: As recruitment challenges persist, hospitality should think outside the box in identifying new talent Hotel

Viewpoint: As recruitment challenges persist, hospitality should think outside the box in identifying new talent

11 November 2021 by

Social enterprises can go a long way towards addressing some of the hospitality sector’s staffing woes,[...]

The Greyhound Beaconsfield launches hospitality mentoring scheme News

The Greyhound Beaconsfield launches hospitality mentoring scheme

21 October 2021 by

The Greyhound pub and restaurant in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, has launched a mentoring scheme aiming to encourage[...]

Hire the smile: why attitude trumps experience when hiring staff Business

Hire the smile: why attitude trumps experience when hiring staff

14 October 2021 by

With the lack of trained staff the current bane of the industry, operators are thinking smarter[...]

Nine in 10 hospitality businesses struggling to recruit staff News

Nine in 10 hospitality businesses struggling to recruit staff

14 October 2021 by

Ninety-two per cent of businesses in the hotels, hospitality and catering sector who are attempting to[...]

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D&D London makes chef training programme permanent after summer school success

D&D London has announced it will be permanently rolling out its chef training programme after seeing 50 of its summer school participants join the business. "

13 October 2021 by
Hospitality job vacancies up 50,000 since pandemic began News

Hospitality job vacancies up 50,000 since pandemic began

12 October 2021
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The number of job vacancies in the UK hospitality industry has risen by 50,000 since before the pandemic began in early 2020, new figures show.

Staff shortage forces hotel to close two days a week during ‘busiest month of the year’ News

Staff shortage forces hotel to close two days a week during ‘busiest month of the year’

12 October 2021
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The Grange at Oborne in Dorset has announced it will close for two days a week during December due to staff shortages, despite it being its “busiest month of the year”.

Emergency visas extended to food haulage drivers News

Emergency visas extended to food haulage drivers

04 October 2021 by

Emergency visas to tackle the UK’s supply chain disruption have been extended to food haulage drivers,[...]

Staffing crisis pushing up wages as one in six jobs lie vacant News

Staffing crisis pushing up wages as one in six jobs lie vacant

04 October 2021 by

One in six (16%) hospitality jobs currently lie vacant, the latest Business Confidence Survey from CGA[...]

Mounting calls for hospitality visas following HGV drivers announcement News

Mounting calls for hospitality visas following HGV drivers announcement

28 September 2021 by

Hospitality bosses have renewed calls for a visa scheme to allow workers to come to the[...]

Government to offer short-term visas to tackle supply chain disruption News

Government to offer short-term visas to tackle supply chain disruption

27 September 2021 by

The government has announced that short-term visas will become available in the run-up to Christmas to[...]

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Mayor of London calls for Covid recovery visa

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has backed calls for the government to introduce a Covid recovery visa to plug the shortage of workers across industries including hospitality."

15 September 2021 by
Hospitality staffing shortage pushes UK job vacancies over one million for first time News

Hospitality staffing shortage pushes UK job vacancies over one million for first time

14 September 2021
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The explosion in hospitality job vacancies has helped push the number of employment opportunities over the one million mark for the first time since records began.

Staff shortages ‘could last up to two years’ and furlough end won’t ‘magically fill gaps’ News

Staff shortages ‘could last up to two years’ and furlough end won’t ‘magically fill gaps’

06 September 2021
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Staffing shortages seen across the UK could last for up to two years and will not be solved by the ending of the furlough scheme this month, the director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has warned.

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