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Are seasonal visa’s the answer to the hospitality staffing issue?
Hospitality has always been known as a job with notoriously long hours and laborious work and with the hospitality sector currently accounting for 30% of overall vacancies it seems attracting staff is one of the biggest issues facing the sector. The problem has only been compounded due by a lack of EU applicants who are struggling to obtain working visas following Brexit - So what is being done to try and tackle this problem?
To try and raise awareness and tackle some of the issues that many hospitality bosses are facing, a petition was launched by Thiago Luz Togni, a general manager at Temper in Shoreditch, London, calling for the Government to create EU hospitality worker visas. It has reached over 15,000 signatures and asks for the implementation of a two year visa, similar to the Seasonal Work visa for horticulture workers.You'll need to
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