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A thank you to Brexiteers.

I wonder if we can get a campaign going to turn all golf courses to free parks (for environmental purposes naturally, not as part of the class war, cough cough)
I bet you a fiver there's a unit in Downing Street currently talking bollocks to each other about turning farms into golf courses.
 
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TBF, this is probably more because of Covid than Brexit. Every pub, cafe, snack bar and roast turnip stand is hiring at the same time. It's the same story in other countries.

It's a somewhat interesting hybrid. In London at least, a significant chunk of the hospitality workforce has left, likely for good. Covid ensured that swathes of hospitality jobs were lost and brexit's a big factor in them not being taken up again by the (largely european) workforce. My partner's a former hotel manager who, after being on furlough, was made redundant last june along with most of the other floor staff. 85% of the workforce were non-UK citizens (and half of those were irish) and most of those without family ties left the UK and there's no sign of them returning. My partner's been inundated with job offers since the unlockening started (their old hotel were nice enough to give first refusal on a position), but all for less money than they were paid previously. Living in London on a hospitality job was barely tenable at the old rates and is even less so now given that rental costs (both for homes and retail units) have remained stratospheric compared to earnings. The job is shit, the wages are shit and getting shitter in real terms, and even if they wanted to there's significant problems getting back in to the country.

That said, I'm sure our lovely Home Office are already making generous allowances for EU citizens coming over here for job interviews.

The picture's likely different outside of London where much less of the hospitality workforce were european, but it's still an endemic issue throughout the UK according to various hospitality news reports.



 
My son just got a grand payrise managing a cafe/bar in Manchester to keep him there due to staff shortages. He said when they interviewed staff for vacancies there were far fewer non UK applicants and all successful applicants haggled over salary.

I love it that people are getting paid more. I wonder what'll happen when you can make more in Costa than care homes?
 
not in the same league but we suppose to have a new managing director coming over from France for our office in London

now its taking her the best party of 6 week now to work through the process of getting a working visa


now imagine if it was for some minimum wage hospitality job
were you have to find accommodation in London as well

not surprised they find lack of people willing to roll through the process
 
now imagine if it was for some minimum wage hospitality job
were you have to find accommodation in London as well

not surprised they find lack of people willing to roll through the process
"You'll usually need to be paid at least £25,600 per year or £10.10 per hour, whichever is higher."

No visas for minimum wage hospitality jobs....Priti Patel is controlling the borders.
 
Fair point*


but if MD of my company is struggle with the process not sure if even if you have the required Salary
its an easy process

*ponders how the lovely Tory party will attempt to exploit people to fill labour shortages and resolve the requirement for higher wages
 
Fair point*


but if MD of my company is struggle with the process not sure if even if you have the required Salary
its an easy process

*ponders how the lovely Tory party will attempt to exploit people to fill labour shortages and resolve the requirement for higher wages
Well, they'll almost certainly start by upping the beasting of benefits claimants - "there's jobs out there, so if you don't take one, you're just a scrounger", the usual form.
 
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