Covid and Brexit: Hospitality industry 'desperately' short-staffed

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Pubs and restaurants are being forced to close amid a national hospitality staff shortage.

A pub landlord says staff shortages in the hospitality industry are forcing him to close for up to two days a week.

Oxford and Abingdon MP Layla Moran is calling for hospitality to be classed as a shortage industry to allow businesses to hire staff from overseas.Mr Butcher said: "It's desperate. My staff have been working ridiculous hours but they were all suffering so I've had to take this decision to close and it's tragic."

He said: "It was well known that the hospitality industry relied on 70% of its workers from EU nationals. I suspect in Oxford the figure was even higher."Staff who returned to their home countries during lockdown are unable to return to Pierre Victoire restaurant, its owner said

 

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