Some 10% of workers left the hospitality sector when the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ended on 30 September, compared to 31 August, new data has found.
Job vacancies in the food services and accommodation sector are still at more than 100,000, after rising by 25,000 from the previous quarter, official figures have revealed.
Following the rumoured rise in that national living wage (NLW), The Morning Advertiser has taken a look at the average salary amounts for job across the pub sector.
Nine in 10 recruiters (88%) say that labour shortages are one of their biggest concerns for the remainder of 2021, while skills shortages are a major concern for two in three (65%).
The hospitality sector has seen the biggest drop in workers on furlough this summer, but the trade still has more than a quarter of a million jobs on the scheme, new official figures have found.
Increasing pressure on hospitality operators to pay the Real Living Wage (RLW) is likely to prove to be an irresistible force for those who want to employ the best staff, workforce management specialist Bizimply has predicted.
Greater Manchester business leaders are urging hospitality employers to sign up to Greater Manchester’s Good Employment Charter and raise the standards of working conditions in the sector in order to attract and retain staff.
There are currently 117,000 vacancies in the accommodation and food service sector – up from 16,000 for the same period (May to July) in 2020, according to official figures.
