How to score a $1000 bonus and a new job Times are tough but cafes, restaurants and bars across the country are screaming for workers, with a hospitality giant offering extra incentive.
Careers 14th Dec 2020 7:52 PM Restaurants, pubs and cafes across the country are screaming out for workers amid workforce shortages with a lack of backpackers and students. While the coronavirus pandemic forced hospitality businesses to close, they re now struggling to find staff after plenty of Australians were able to receive the JobKeeper stimulus while international travel bans have reduced the number of foreign workers. Some hospitality venues across Australia are using desperate measures to lure staff, offering cash bonus incentives to help fill positions.
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Restaurants, pubs and cafes are using desperate measures to lure staff as a workforce shortage threatens to increase food and drink prices.
Hospitality venues across Australia are offering cash bonus incentives as they struggle with an industry shortage of skilled workers.
Victoria is the worst hit by the shortage, where hospitality positions accounted for more than 2.6 per cent of all Victorian jobs advertised in October, compared to the 2.2 per cent nationwide average.
Hospitality giant The Australian Venue Co, which runs more than 150 bars across the country has offered job seekers a $1,000 sign-on bonus and an extra $2,000 if they re still employed after three months.
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Hospitality workers are being offered sign-on bonuses of up to $1000 in a battle between pubs and restaurants to secure staff amid a labour shortage that may drive up wages and food and drink prices.
The competition is particularly hot in Victoria where venues are reopening after months of lockdown to find a workforce raided by other states and absent of backpackers and skilled visa holders, who were told early in the pandemic to return home and denied access to JobSeeker or JobKeeper payments.
Victorian president of the Australian Hotels Association, David Canny, said the shortage extended from unskilled roles such as dishwashers through to head chefs, and it meant some venues were unable to reopen or were closing for days just to give overworked staff a break.