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The hospitality sector has suffered some of the sharpest drops in payroll numbers nationwide as UK unemployment rose to 5% in the three months to March.
According to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), youth unemployment reached 14.7%, marking the highest level for the age group since late 2014.
Provisional figures for April indicate further contraction across the wider labour market, with the total number of payrolled employees falling by 100,000 compared to the previous month.
Trade body UKHospitality has attributed falling job vacancies, hours available and scarcer recruitment plans as a result of recent legislative measures such as the national minimum wage increase and higher business rates introduced in April.
Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKH, said: “The government’s approach to balance the books on the backs of high street businesses is resulting in rising unemployment and fewer job opportunities, particularly for young people.
“The past two Budgets have inflicted more than £5bn of additional costs onto hospitality businesses, forcing them to cut jobs, slash hours and scrap plans for new roles. Today’s figures are clear evidence that hospitality has been disproportionately affected, as the ONS itself calls out and we warned would be the case.”
She added: “If the government wants to grow the economy and get people back into work, it needs hospitality’s help. Rather than taxing jobs out of the sector, it should reduce our weighty cost burden to allow businesses to create jobs. That should start with a cut to VAT for hospitality and a meaningful reduction in business rates for the entire sector.”
The hospitality sector has suffered some of the sharpest drops in payroll numbers nationwide as UK unemployment rose to 5% in the three months to March.
According to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), youth unemployment reached 14.7%, marking the highest level for the age group since late 2014.
Provisional figures for April indicate further contraction across the wider labour market, with the total number of payrolled employees falling by 100,000 compared to the previous month.
Trade body UKHospitality has attributed falling job vacancies, hours available and scarcer recruitment plans as a result of recent legislative measures such as the national minimum wage increase and higher business rates introduced in April.
Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKH, said: “The government’s approach to balance the books on the backs of high street businesses is resulting in rising unemployment and fewer job opportunities, particularly for young people.
“The past two Budgets have inflicted more than £5bn of additional costs onto hospitality businesses, forcing them to cut jobs, slash hours and scrap plans for new roles. Today’s figures are clear evidence that hospitality has been disproportionately affected, as the ONS itself calls out and we warned would be the case.”
She added: “If the government wants to grow the economy and get people back into work, it needs hospitality’s help. Rather than taxing jobs out of the sector, it should reduce our weighty cost burden to allow businesses to create jobs. That should start with a cut to VAT for hospitality and a meaningful reduction in business rates for the entire sector.”
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