Faced with a pending summer of pent-up demand and falling unemployment figures, pubs around the country are working to find workers in the great hospitality staff crisis. Anticipating extraordinary demand over the warmer months, Australian Venue Co has launched an ambitious new recruitment drive to fill 500 jobs. AVC is targeting Australians abroad who want […]
Pubs and hotels have been granted powers to put senior permanent staff onto one single higher rate, without complex penalty rates, in a move expected to make the system simpler for smaller operators. Following an industry proposal to introduce so-called “loaded rates”, pubs can now pay key full-time staff award wages at a higher rate,
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Lewis Group has announced it is offering a signing bonus of $2,500 for chefs as the industry feels the pinch of the labour shortage crisis. A Federal Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Migration was told this week of staff shortages forcing some hoteliers to “beg, borrow or steal” chefs and cooks, while many Sydney CBD
The Federal Government has laid out new rules to help employers get the workers they need, in an approach that wields a big stick but not a lot of carrots. Upheaval of industries as a result of the pandemic sees employers around the country reporting problems finding serious applicants for jobs, with hospitality one of
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The challenge to fill staff positions has hit top gear with Australian Venue Co offering sign-on bonuses of up to $1,000 in a bid to secure workers to operate the group’s 150 pubs around Australia. The second wave of the pandemic in Victoria struck a second blow when operators began reopening to find a critical
Today is ‘Equal Pay Day’ in Australia, and the WGHA is calling on employers to achieve equality and better outcomes within their workforce. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) calculated 28 August to be Equal Pay Day in Australia, determined by the average 59 additional days (from 1 July) that women must work to earn
Former Federal member and fresh face of the Laundy portfolio, Craig Laundy, has taken a swipe at a system and the workers being paid high subsidies by government while freshly re-opened pubs struggle to cover shifts. On Monday Prime Minister Scott Morrison admitted to 2GB that if unemployment benefits, the “dole”, was too high, it
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An employment challenge looms as pubs get back to work, finding laid-off workers content to receive the generous JobSeeker allowance rather than return to regular duties. Pioneering what has become a national policy, Western Australia moved to stage four of restrictions easing over the weekend, allowing one patron per two square metres – effectively doubling
Hospitality workers are rising up over “systemic” pay disputes, as Victoria passes laws threatening jail time for employers, the UWU begins legal actions, and JobKeeper rorts come to light. Last week the Victorian Parliament passed the first laws in Australia criminalising wage theft, promising up to a decade in jail for bosses stealing from workers.
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The Fair Work Commission today handed down its decisions regarding wage increases, opting to defer the annual boost for hospitality staff until February 2021. The FWC has faced interests more greatly polarised than normal, as entities representing workers and businesses made cases for prioritisation in the pending recession as the country re-awakens from the COVID-19
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