The Andalusian hotel industry is already looking for waiters in Morocco

The lack of manpower to cover jobs is once again a problem for the hotel industry, at the gates of the spring festivals and the summer season.

Already last year, the employers made appeals due to the lack of trained candidates to fill the vacant positions.

And when bars and restaurants are already preparing for the start of the high tourist season, once again the companies warn that there is a lack of personnel to serve their customers, to the point that solutions such as those offered to agriculture are already being demanded. , with massive hiring of immigrants for seasonal crops.

In this regard, the president of the hotel employers of Cádiz (Horeca),

, proposed this Tuesday that the central government organize the hiring of "contingents of Moroccans" to make up for the lack of professionals.

De María made this request during a tourism forum organized by

in

(Cádiz), where he assured that the Cádiz employers have already established contacts with some Moroccan authorities, "who have welcomed this idea", according to reports Efe.

"We are looking at the possibility of getting students from Moroccan hospitality schools to apply to work in establishments in Andalusia," said the president of the Cádiz hoteliers.

De María explained that this type of contract, "known as the foreigner contingent", must have the "approval of the

".

The person in charge of Horeca explained that the proposal began to be studied when verifying last summer "the difficulties" that bars and restaurants in the province of Cádiz had to find workers during the high season.

De María proposes "looking to the future, realizing that the youth population has decreased, and those who are now do not seem to want to sign up to work in the hospitality industry."

In

, as in many other Andalusian cities, the lack of workers in the hospitality sector, especially qualified personnel, has become a very serious problem.

With the aim of providing a solution to this important shortcoming, the

is working with both public institutions and associations as well as private companies to professionalize employees in this industry, so that they are increasingly more qualified and have better quality, but also with the "firm objective" of dignifying professions such as waiter or cook.

To begin with, Málaga hoteliers have not considered resorting to foreigners to fill the vacancies that arise in a sector that they describe as "very particular and varied", although they would not look badly at having foreign workers, especially if they are well qualified and they speak languages.

"It is not what is intended -they say- but, if it occurs, they are welcome", they sentence.

The traditionally markedly temporary nature of the hotel industry, with large "peaks" of activity associated with summer and holidays, means that this sector is fed by temporary employees who come to restaurants in search of a bonus or temporary employment, but who They do not see a future job in this industry.

Something Mahos would like to put an end to.

Their intention is - they explain - to train employees and "show them the good prospects there are" so that they stay in their job, they can have a career ahead in the hotel industry and stop seeing restaurants as "a bridge » from which to jump to something else.

With this objective, they have launched different tools, among which is the recently created

.

For Mahos, the shortage of personnel is in no way due to the fact that precarious working conditions are offered, although in this, as in all professions, "there are employers who do not comply, although they are the least," they comment.

Wages would not be a problem either, since the payrolls set by agreement "are more than decent," he added.

The lack of attractiveness of some jobs in the field of restoration could be, for Málaga hoteliers, at the origin of the prevailing shortage of employees that the sector suffers for whom serving a dish must be in the same line of quality as the ingredients and their preparation.

For Mahos, room service -where there are more problems to fill vacancies- is also a beautiful job that can become an art and that is part of the complete experience that an establishment offers.

18,510 new contracts for Easter

will

generate 18,510 contracts in Andalusia, 17.3% more than last year, although contracting in the community in this period will still be 27.3% lower than the volumes prior to the pandemic, according to forecasts published by the human resources company

.

In its report, the company has taken into account data from the passenger transport, hospitality and entertainment sectors, which are the ones that traditionally drive the incorporation of professionals during this period.

In 2022, 15,786 contracts were registered, so the increase registered in Andalusia is 0.2 percentage points higher than the national average, with 17.1%. At the provincial level, Cádiz will

the highest volume of contracts (4,530) and an increase of 17.7% compared to the 2022 campaign, while in Malaga 3,880 contracts will be signed and there will be an increase of 19.4%.

In Seville, 3,580 contracts will be initialed and will increase by 20.4%;

in Jaén, 1,710 contracts and an increase of 12.8%;

in Granada, 1,470 contracts and an increase of 10.9% compared to 2022;

in Almería, 1,160 headings, 18.4% more;

in Córdoba, 1,160 contracts, 14.2%;

and in Huelva, 1,020 signatures, 16% more than last year.

By sectors, 81.6% of the 84,750 contracts to be signed will correspond to the hotel industry, followed by passenger transport (11.8%) and artistic and recreational activities (6.8%).

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