Even an announcement published on Facebook yesterday for today: a restaurant in Porto San Paolo is looking for an urgent waiter / a in August. Again: in San Teodoro a hotel needs a dishwasher and a kitchen commis. A restaurant in Cagliari needs an assistant cook. A Terralba facility is looking for a room cleaner. A resort in Gallura calls receptionist for the wellness center, masseuse, assistant barman.
With water in my throat
All last-minute requests : tourism companies are (always) on the hunt for thousands of professional figures for tourism, seasonal to be hired on the fly, unfortunately without the possibility of selection, and when there are people available to enter the service immediately it is already a miracle, given that the empty boxes to be filled - in this summer which is doing great numbers and could go on for another three months - are very many.
Fausto Mura, head of Federalberghi South Sardinia, explains that "the situation is very difficult throughout Italy and half of Europe, in some regions, such as Trentino Alto Adige, accommodation facilities are working with 40% fewer employees, here there is a deficit of about 15%, therefore, out of 47,500 direct employees in the hotel sector on the island, 5,000 people are missing . There are no chefs, second cooks, waiters, receptionists, and several other figures. It means that companies are forced to cut services ».
For example, a hotel will have to keep the restaurant open only for lunch or dinner, or feed exclusively to those who stay overnight and not to outsiders. A structure that has an internal bar and one on the beach, will be able to make only one of the two operational. The swimming pool of a village will have to reduce the hours of use.
Losses and image
Mura adds: «Why is there a lack of personnel? I believe that citizenship income is "responsible" to a small extent. It was the lockdown that created this deficit , for two years tourism businesses were closed and people went to work in other sectors. The problem lies in the low volume of professionals that the island training places on the job market every year. If we don't find solutions, every season will get worse ».
The union
Of course, there is also the question of wages that are too low, of impossible hours, of dilapidated housing, of less than humane treatment, of "black" calls, which rightly push the boys to refuse - and the union also watches over this. , with Nella Milazzo, secretary Filcams Cgil.
(Unioneonline)
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