drive some of those tracks if it comes to that. but also for the first time talking about potentially relaxing the rules on visas for foreign drivers, because we know this problem has been caused by a perfect storm of issues. it is an ageing workforce of hgv drivers leaving the industry, changes to the tax tax rules, fewer recruits into the industry and a backlog of licenses, test to get licenses for new drivers. 0n licenses, test to get licenses for new drivers. on top of that, the man picking up after the pandemic meaning many businesses are now operating shipping things around the country and, crucially, brexit has changed the these are rules for foreign drivers working in the uk. taken together, it means a shortage of about 100,000 hgv drivers and today seeing the impact on the fuel industry after we have already seen the impact on restaurants and supermarket shelves, and to it is the turn of the fuel industry, and the turn of the fuel industry, and the problem is wejust the tur
to increase people s salaries, we pay the basic here and get good people for good money, you get a gp for, you cannot enhance that by a service charge and it does take a difference. people banged on it. we saw it with the jag scheme, tips were not included. it is a welcome change from the government but would have been better if it was therefore furlough throughout the pandemic. do you worry that it might be taken away from staff in other ways? in their wages, for example? t away from staff in other ways? in their wages, for example? i would like to think their wages, for example? i would like to think not, their wages, for example? i would like to think not, there their wages, for example? i would like to think not, there may - their wages, for example? i would like to think not, there may be i their wages, for example? i would . like to think not, there may be some operators out there, but this country in general needs to start to see hospitality as a viable period path, becaus
that is my advice anybody in hospitality, be picky with who you choose and work for somebody fair and who will look after you. stand choose and work for somebody fair and who will look after you. and the andemic and who will look after you. and the pandemic has and who will look after you. and the pandemic has taught and who will look after you. and the pandemic has taught us and who will look after you. and the pandemic has taught us many i and who will look after you. and the i pandemic has taught us many things, and one of those is not to take things like hospitality for granted, because we were all desperate to get back to it. , , , . back to it. yes, myself included, and i am loving back to it. yes, myself included, and i am loving being back to it. yes, myself included, and i am loving being back- back to it. yes, myself included, and i am loving being back and l back to it. yes, myself included, i and i am loving being back and long may it continue. may it continue. h
improve or potentially get slightly worse and we see more shortages at forecourts, the government is going to come under considerable pressure to come under considerable pressure to come under considerable pressure to come up with some sort of immediate ten solution. the easiest thing, i suppose, immediate ten solution. the easiest thing, isuppose, would be immediate ten solution. the easiest thing, i suppose, would be to allow more people into the country and get hgv licence holders on the continent who are less likely to come over because of the pandemic or brexit making visa rules more complicated, that could be one immediate solution to the problem. perhaps not as easy as it sounds, though, because another thing to bear in mind is this is not a uk problem, there has also been a shortage of hgv drivers in a number of european countries as well. some of that workforce is being snapped up domestically on the continent, so there are going to be, i think, continent, so there are going t
cause, should it give us any cause for unease? some court of social pariahs. for unease? some court of social ariahs. ,, , , pariahs. i m with steve in the sense that this is a pariahs. i m with steve in the sense that this is a statement pariahs. i m with steve in the sense that this is a statement of - pariahs. i m with steve in the sense that this is a statement of the - that this is a statement of the blindingly obvious. i do get now such a broad consensus that no matter what else we need to get out of the pandemic, the vaccination is art of it. i think the more interesting question is perhaps, and it s a debate that s ongoing in the united states, is whether that kind of language will work. in other words, the key is how you get vaccine hesitant people to getjobs. and it s a mixed of financial inducements and various other things to getjabs. my suspicion is, particularly when new information, either we may see a shift in the