Italian restaurant offers waiters £30 AN HOUR to lure in staff after Covid causes shift havoc

COVID chaos has caused staff shortages so bad one Italian restaurant is paying waiters £30 an hour.  The fine-dining eatery called Zafferano in Perth, Australia is offering as much as £1,200 a week to what is specified as “experienced”, “highly-motivated” and “well-groomed” candidates. Facebook/ZafferanoThe fine-dining eatery called Zafferano in Perth, Australia, is among other willing to pay good money[/caption] Cafes, restaurants and bars across Australia have been hit by staff shortages following Covid border closures. This has cut off the supply of foreign workers such as backpackers who fill many jobs. Last month one of Sydney’s top restaurants — Rockpool Bar & Grill — was paying dishwashers up to £50 per hour on a Friday and Saturday night because of labour shortages. The New South Wales capital’s Aria restaurant, owned by celebrity chef Matt Moran, is offering more than £50,000 worth of incentives to new staff through sign-on bonuses and refer-a-friend campaigns. Bradley Woods, chief executive of the Australian Hotels Association’s Western Australian branch, said the big bucks offer showed just how bad the labour crisis was in the hospitality industry. Mr Woods told the West Australian: “Staff shortages are having a profound effect on hospitality venues throughout WA and in turn having an inflationary impact on wages, a cost ultimately borne by the customer.” Most read in The Sun SLIGHT XMAS Abrupt Covid crackdown planned after Boxing Day as Omicron surge threatens NHS 'PSYCHO' SAVED Star Hobson's killer Savannah Brockhill revived TWICE in jail before trial Naming fray Trolls accuse me of giving my daughter a 'boy’s name' & slate my choice RED ALERT 'Major incident' declared in London amid huge concern at rise in Covid cases BEERS OFF Major pub chain closes 'busiest' boozers 'indefinitely' amid Omicron chaos OUT OF IT Brits ‘could be BANNED from mixing indoors’ in lockdown plan as PM briefs Cabinet Mr Woods added: “With a date now set for WA’s border reopening, we look forward to welcoming workers back into the state so we can alleviate the significant workforce pressures being felt across WA’s hotels, restaurants, bars and pubs.” On Wednesday, Australia opened the borders to vaccinated students and migrants. This was for the first time since March 2020 as part of a bid to kick-start the economy and live with Covid-19. Employment website Seek earlier this month reported that job ads in the hospitality and tourism sector rose 76 percent in November compared with the same period last year. But meanwhile, applications per job hit a record low. The website put the shortage down to “increasing job ad numbers, a smaller talent pool and a nation of workers more conscious of job ad security than ever before”. EPASt Vincent’s Hospital drive-through testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney[/caption] EPANSW Premier Dominic Perrottet speaks to the media today as the state breaks the record for the most daily infections reported elsewhere in Australia[/caption]