The Saxon hospitality industry is threatened by a staff shortage, according to the food-enjoyment-restaurants union (NGG).
The reason is the well below average income in the industry, as the NGG announced on Monday.
According to this, cooks, service staff and hotel employees earned 42 percent below average in Dresden, 40 percent in Leipzig and 39 percent in Chemnitz.
Dresden - According to an analysis by the union-affiliated Hans Böckler Foundation, which had evaluated the figures from the Federal Employment Agency, employees in the hospitality industry who have a full-time position in Dresden have an average gross monthly income of currently 1882 euros. Across all industries, the average full-time in the state capital is therefore 3252 euros.
"If hotel and restaurant employees earn 42 percent less than the average, then nobody should be surprised that they are looking for a new job in times of the Corona crisis," said Thomas Lißner, Managing Director of the NGG Dresden-Chemnitz region .
In addition, many employees would have had to get by on short-time allowance for months.
Although the innkeepers and hoteliers were also badly affected by the consequences of the corona pandemic, everything must now be done to make wages and working conditions more attractive, emphasized Lißner.
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