This summer season has become a brake on the workers of the complex: the dream of earning a car – nadó

Late season

According to the Employment Service website, there are currently 1,314 vacancies in Klaipėda County. 83 of them belong to the hotel, restaurant and tourism sectors. 19 of these job openings are in Palanga: looking for chefs, waiters, food preparers, waiters, kitchen staff.

A waiter in Palanga can expect a salary of around 600-700 euros before taxes. And here is a seasonal job contract for chefs, with a salary of 700-1000 before taxes.

How Delphi Ingrida Valaitienė, director of the Palanga Hotel and Restaurant Association, says the demand for seasonal workers is there, but that it is behind schedule.

“Compared to last year, demand is lagging. Demand is lower. If we knew in the past that the hotel needed to hire around 10 additional room service employees during the season, then we were quietly looking to have and work in early July. And now we are hiring people, two employees, etc. There is no sudden search and admission of employees, “says I. Valaitienė.

Dainius Drungilas, who has more than one business in Palanga, says that the number of employees in his companies has decreased, as the volume of business has decreased slightly.

“The season is late, unequivocally. We were already working in April and now we open in the second half of May. The season is very late,” says the businessman.

When asked if an employer is not offering higher wages or accommodation to employees this season due to an unusual situation, the latter responds that it is not. According to him, such conditions in Palanga are episodic cases.

“We do not offer exceptional terms. Our business has shrunk, it is no longer profitable. And to offer something more …

We do not offer additional accommodation to any employee. In that case, there is a big commitment. If we find accommodation, then young people are young, we cannot predict what they will do after work. They can consecrate themselves a bit, then the hostess calls: get along with her staff. It is in this place where employees find accommodation and there are no problems, “says D. Drungilas.

The car – will no longer buy

Skomantas, who came to Palanga from Jurbarkas to work and worked as a waiter, says finding a job was not easy.

“I had almost no experience, I was a” messenger “for several months. But my friends and I said that we will go to Palanga”, says the boy.

The 3-man company decided to start looking for summer work even in March, but all hopes were dashed when the quarantine began. Skomantas says he does not think he will find a job this summer and that he will be able to realize his dream: to buy the first car.

“We found work in only two, the third is still looking for a job.” We got a job recently, we rented the apartment ourselves. Few people leave the tea, I don’t know if it will be a car “, the young man worries.

When asked why it was difficult to find a job, the man says that employers need fewer new employees because part of it comes from downtime.

“And when you don’t have work experience, it’s not at all,” the waiter shrugs.

Kita Delphi The waiter is working in a luxurious 5 star hotel. According to her, all hotel staff have already returned from downtime, and so far only one new waitress has joined the staff.

“It just came to our attention then. But the Lithuanians are going to Palanga, the foreigner is closed. That might be fine. It’s scary that you don’t need more new staff mid-season. We couldn’t train them,” said Palanga.

Drungil says he hires both locals and those who come to work on the coast from other cities for the season.

“Most of them are newcomers, but we are trying to recruit people from the periphery, Kretinga region. The more children there are, let’s say, from the provinces, the better workers they will be. If the children are from the villages, the more likely they are be more workers. They know the discipline. Because with young people, the further, the more difficult. The concept of their work has fundamentally changed, “says D. Drungilas.

According to him, one of the problems is telephones. The businessman offers to look at his two employees who are sitting opposite each other: they communicate but both look at their phones.

“Telephones are one of those problems. But if employees used to realize that manual labor and working hours are a matter of course and need to be worked, then there is an attitude that payment should be paid only because I come to They need style After all, with social media the form of self-expression turned into vanity If an employee does not get the attention of colleagues, friends and if he is working so much, he sometimes feels very humiliated Because it works After everything must be shameless, not work. Work discipline and understanding are decreasing, “says the businessman.