Owners of catering businesses fear an even greater staff shortage because the GGD offers a better salary. Trade union FNV joins them.
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A GGD employee can earn up to 23 euros per hour on Sundays. Catering employees earn, apart from tips, between 10 and 14 euros when they are 18 to 20 years old. The target group is the same in both sectors: it concerns young people who are temporarily looking for a side job.
Fourth time
“The annoying thing is that we as a catering industry have been working for months on building a team for the fourth time,” says Riad Farhat of De Drie Wijzen from East. “So this can get really annoying.”
A solution seems to be raising wages by the catering industry, but according to Farhat that is difficult. “A beer is calculated on the basis of gas, water, electricity, personnel costs and other fixed costs. After that you have little left.” So if salaries go up even more, the consumer will have to pay for it, according to Farhat.
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According to FNV Horeca, you as a business would prefer to offer the highest possible salary. “The industry is already well on its way, but sometimes it just isn’t possible.”
“When the catering industry was open and there was vaccination, you saw a large shortage,” says Koninklijke Horeca Nederland. “If people now want to earn a lot of money, it is a logical consequence that they go to the GGD.”
Do not discuss
Farhat fully agrees that vaccinations are important: “You would prefer to keep everyone healthy and not have to have this discussion at all.”
Farhat thinks there could be other solutions to staff the vaccination centers. “Why aren’t we looking at combining vaccinations and all these branches as in other countries? For example, you could combine supermarkets with vaccination locations. Or we can ask the festival organizations to cooperate, that season is almost over.”
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