Press release No. N 001 of 14 January 2022
- From January to October 2021, staff decreased by almost a quarter on the same period in 2019
- Especially persons employed on a low-pay basis lost their job
- No young colleagues: markedly fewer new apprenticeship contracts in restaurant occupations in 2020
WIESBADEN – The measures taken to contain the Covid-19 pandemic have hit the restaurant industry particularly hard – with consequences for the jobs in that branch. The number of persons employed in the period from January to October 2021 was by 11.6% lower than in the same period a year earlier; a decrease of 23.4% was observed when compared with the same period of the pre-Covid year of 2019. The loss of jobs was particularly evident during the lockdown months at the beginning of last year. An all-time low was reached in February 2021.
