DECRYPTION – Labor shortages and inflation have led industry bosses to make a particularly big effort.
It’s a funny advertisement that the restaurant Les Grands Buffets has offered itself. If this Narbonnais establishment made the headlines in the fall, it’s less for its cuisine than for its large salaries. After increasing the salaries of its employees by 30%, its director undertook to index them to inflation, with a leveling every six months.
Without going that far, most hotel and catering establishment managers have had to put their hands in their wallets in recent months to retain or attract employees. The Dares figures are unequivocal: in the fourth quarter, the index of the sector’s basic monthly salary grew by 4.6% over one year. This surge is certainly largely linked to that of the Smic, accommodation and catering being the sector where the proportion of employees concerned by the revaluation of the minimum wage is the highest (42%).
Shaken by the great resignation observed in their establishments after the periods…