The summer campaign is about to start and the concern that is increasingly heard in the hospitality industry is that they do not have people to work. Several associations of the hotel sector have started to look for solutions, including that of Gipuzkoan.
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At the gates of the summer season, there are more and more complaints about the lack of people who want to work in the hospitality industry. That is why the Association of Hoteliers of Gipuzkoa is working on a project to bring 50 professionals from the sector from Colombia. The elaboration is carried out through the state federation with the ministries of Migration and Labor and with Lanbide.
In this way, the work and residence permits of the workers coming from Colombia are managed by the Ministry of Migration, but ensuring compliance with the conditions to allow employment is equivalent to Lanbide. In other words, it is this body that must guarantee that there is no choice but to go abroad to look for staff, and in this process lies the key to slowing down this initiative now.
In fact, the first Colombian workers were supposed to arrive in June, but the recruitment has been postponed until the end of the year. Mikel Aiestaran, director of the catering federation, confirmed in “Faktoria” that the initiative is currently paralyzed and that they are meeting with the Ministry of Labor and Lanbide. Once in Gipuzkoa, the workers would benefit from the hotel agreement, Aiestaran assured.
The initiative aims to help alleviate the “serious staff shortage” in the hospitality sector. However, from ELA and LAB they argue that the problem is not solved by taking workers from abroad, as this could mean an even worsening of working conditions.
They discussed the lack of staff and the reasons for it with patxi Teresa Yes Anneworkers in the sector. Patxi has been working in the hospitality industry as a waiter for 36 years, in Donostia. It is clear to him that hospitality is a sacrifice and that neither the conditions nor the salary are equivalent to it. Teresa also has a lot of experience in the sector, but on the other side. He stresses that the conditions of the current hotel industry have nothing to do with what they were.
As for young people, Teresa believes that continuing to live in their parents’ home “discourages” them from working in the hotel industry; Patxi, for his part, adds that they live more comfortably in their parents’ house and that it is not worth devoting themselves to the hotel business. When asked how they can meet staffing needs, the three agree that the future is uncertain.
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Source: EITB
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