Fair Work Levers for Hospitality

16th April 2024

The Fair Work Convention published a couple of reports this week, one looking at Fair Work levers (authored by fellow Strathclyders at the Scottish Centre for Employment Research) and the view of those in the industry on how these could/should be used.

The report highlights key challenges in the hospitality industry: rising costs, housing and transport availability, retention issues, uneven service demands, and visa restrictions. Fair work challenges included low pay, unsocial hours, and training difficulties.

Those involved in the research debated how to prioritise business challenges over fair work improvements:

"some thought addressing business challenges took precedence before improving fair work; others felt prioritising fair work could help address businesses challenges"

The key findings from the report, including the range of opinions on the way forward, echoes a lot of what we've heard from businesses in our own research hospitality through the Serving the Future project

Read the full SCER report here
Read the full SCER report here
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Source Fraser of Allender Institute https://fraserofallander.org/