Cádiz, Mar 15 (EFE).- The Cádiz City Council has asked the province’s hospitality employers to invest in “training, professionalization and good working conditions” for Spaniards instead of looking for waiters in Morocco.
The City Council of Cádiz thus responds to the proposal launched yesterday by the president of Horeca, Antonio de María, that “contingents of Moroccans” be hired to replace the problem derived from the lack of professionals in the sector that they face, especially in high season, bars and restaurants.
Specifically, De María said that conversations had already begun to study the possibility of bringing hospitality students from Morocco.
The Councilor for Development and Employment, Carlos Paradas, today expressed his surprise at this proposal when 25% of the people who are in the Municipal Employment Agency belong to the hospitality sector.
Bet on local training
In addition, he has pointed out that “nobody” in the employers’ association of the sector in Cádiz has shown “interest” when the City Council has offered them to pay for plans to train new waiters “as long as there is a hiring commitment.”
“This City Council invests a lot of budget in training and we have already transferred to Horeca that if any company in the sector came with a training proposal with a high recruitment commitment, we would put the money for said training at no cost to the company”, he remarked.
For her part, the Councilor for Tourism and Commerce, Montemayor Mures, wondered how businessmen “are going to hire people in other countries when in Cádiz we have so many good professionals.”
The mayor has stressed that “it is not that they do not want to bring people from outside, but we must remember that in the province we suffer a very high level of unemployment and from the City Council what we ask is that it be taken into account and that it be guaranteed that workers are in optimal conditions. EFE