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Where age is honoured

More and more companies prefer to employ younger staff and let the staff with more experience go down the drain.
Posted: 20 July 2006 | 00:00

Reports that directors are to be fired for hiring illegals are dismissed

waiter setting tableReports that the Government is planning to fire directors whose companies hire illegal workers and seize their assets have been dismissed as “highly speculative” by the Home Office.
Posted: 17 July 2006 | 16:24

New college-based qualifications for chefs out soon

studying chefsCollege-based NVQ qualifications are failing to provide the hospitality and catering sectors with the skills required by both bosses and employees, warns People 1st.
Posted: 04 July 2006 | 17:00

The Bench: Scottish hotel performance in May 2006

Hotels in Scotland boosted revenue per available room (revpar) by 4.5% during the month of May.
Posted: 29 June 2006 | 12:22

Hospitality faces staffing crisis in housekeeping

housekeeperYears of under-training and under-paying have led to a housekeeping crisis, experts have warned.
Posted: 22 June 2006 | 15:53

Contract catering has much to offer

Just as 23-year-old Jessica Cain was picking up first prize in the Olive Barnett Award at London's Claridge's on Monday evening this week, an almighty row was breaking out between contract caterers and colleges.
Posted: 18 May 2006 | 00:00

AWT stirs up row over migrant worker skills

Antony Worrall Thompson's condemnation of eastern European workers last week has been slammed by industry leaders as "arrogant" and "absolute nonsense".
Posted: 18 May 2006 | 00:00

People 1st: We need industry support

I refer to your recent article on junior chefs and the National Skills Academy (Caterer, 11 May, page 34). Nice title, some excellent content, however a real pity about some issues which I have outlined below.
Posted: 18 May 2006 | 00:00

Staff crisis threat to Gulf hotels

Hospitality operators in the Gulf region are facing a staffing crisis as the market continues to burgeon. In Dubai's five-star market alone, an additional 18,000 rooms are set to come on to the market by 2008.
Posted: 11 May 2006 | 00:00

Ways to help women work

I refer to your news article on Gordon Brown's Budget (Caterer, 30 March, page 13), in which Martin Couchman commented on how the promise of match-funded cash could help tackle hospitality's skills shortage and attract and train low-skilled women.
Posted: 06 April 2006 | 00:00

People 1st launches new website

People1st webpagePeople 1st, the Sector Skills Council for the hospitality and leisure sector, has launched a new website, www.people1st.co.uk, for employers and employees.
Posted: 05 April 2006 | 15:18

Nail in the coffin of the curry restaurant

Enam AliThe Government’s new points-based immigration scheme could sound the death knell for many of the UK’s curry restaurants, warns Enam Ali.
Posted: 30 March 2006 | 15:07

Cheffing's high profile a double edged sword for industry

Cheffing’s high profile on television is a double edged sword when it comes to attracting staff, according to senior chefs.
Posted: 28 February 2006 | 12:40

Give EHOs a fair reward

Your excellent rendition of problems caused by online reports on hygiene shortcomings - and the impossibility, for establishments, to have their response published immediately - underlines two issues (Caterer, 2 February, page 4).
Posted: 09 February 2006 | 00:00

Employers slow to grab initiative over skills gap

Chef schoolHospitality companies are failing to tackle the skills crisis despite recognising the threat it poses to their future prosperity, according to a new report.
Posted: 10 January 2006 | 15:11

The benefits of craft training

James BrownChief executive of the Academy of Food & Wine Service James Brown says the industry ignores the teaching of basic skills at its peril
Posted: 10 November 2005 | 00:00

Hospitality industry 'must help itself'

The hospitality industry's skills shortage will only get worse unless the sector improves its working conditions, experts warned this week.
Posted: 03 November 2005 | 00:00

NVQ training is disastrous for chefs

Chefs studyingChefs’ training under the National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) system is disastrously inadequate, according to David Nicholls, executive head chef at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel.
Posted: 20 October 2005 | 17:09

Poor management costs the industry nearly £1b a year

kitchenBadly trained managers and poor human resources practices are costing the hospitality and tourism sector £900m a year because the industry can't hold on to its staff, according to new research.
Posted: 20 October 2005 | 09:58

Let's start training for the Olympics

On 6 July, London was named host city for the Olympic Games in 2012. It was a wonderful moment as Sebastian Coe and his team triumphed, apparently against the odds, to win the necessary votes from the IOC. Paris, we had been reliably told, was miles ahead and a clear bookies' favourite.
Posted: 20 October 2005 | 00:00

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