"Closed due to lack of staff, but if you are a bartender and want to work call, so we can reopen".
This is the sign that appeared in recent days outside the kiosk of the Terzi coffee in piazza Aldrovandi, in the center of Bologna.
The owners, reports the local edition of Repubblica, have been looking for staff for some time but despite being offered a job for around
1,300 euros a month for 40 hours a week
, they have not received any answers.
And so they had to close, for a month now, in order to keep open another bar always managed in the center, in via Oberdan.
"
You can't find any staff, they don't even respond to the announcement
. Since the sign appeared, about a week ago, we only had a request for an appointment, from a person who didn't show up. We've had a few phone calls. , but there is no mention of expert bartenders. Someone looking for a job contacted us, but often they are people who have been a bartender for two months and a long time ago ", the owner Elena Terzi tells ANSA.
"We
offer regular
employment as a fifth-level bartender, with a national collective labor agreement," he explains.
Some ask to have the weekend free, others to work part time and for this reason they end up not interested in the offer: "It also happens, sometimes, that people with unemployment or citizenship income ask to
be able to work 5- 6 hours a week in black, to round up
. "
CGIL: THE SECTOR IS LESS ATTRACTIVE
"We have data from the National Labor Inspectorate that say that 70% of the activities in the sector have irregularities: incorrect application of contracts, incorrect payment of working hours, overtime, conditions that are not respected. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why working in this sector is less interesting, less attractive. We must not generalize, but the individual case can be affected by the general condition ".
This was stated by Paolo Montalti, general secretary of
Filcams-Cgil
of Emilia-Romagna.
"The difficulty in finding personnel - says Montalti - we do not say that it is not true regardless. Let's say, however, that it is not linked to the theme, as some say, that people do not give up their citizenship income".
Moreover, after the pandemic "many have realized that there are different needs, people leave with voluntary resignations and make other life choices. And then let's not forget - adds Montalti - that public businesses and restaurants have undergone particular restrictions and those who worked there have suffered. income reductions with hours of cig and more ".
The trade union, on the subject, asked the Region "to open a permanent table on work in tourism" and then "to focus on training,
