TESTIMONIALS – Pay and working conditions scared away 100,000 employees after the Covid-19 pandemic. Converted to other sectors, self-employed, unemployed… they did not return.
A huge letdown. After the Covid pandemic, 100,000 hotel and restaurant workers left their jobs. Their employers first thought they would take a few months off before returning to the sector. This is not the case. They are always absent subscribers. “They will probably not come back and are scattered in many other sectorsdeplores Jean-Virgile Crance, president of the Confederation of tourism stakeholders, which brings together fifteen professional federations. Yet there are 200,000 vacancies..
The reasons for this great desertion have been looping for months: exhausting working conditions mobilizing evenings and weekends, daytime cuts between midday and evening service, unpaid overtime… Glued to their homes during the pandemic – restaurants were closed and hotels no longer had a customer – many discovered another life. When the activity resumed, they took to their heels…