A Perth pub manager says he is struggling to fill job vacancies at the venue due to JobSeeker.
Max Fox-Andrews, the manager of the Windsor Hotel in South Perth, told Sunrise he would normally receive up to 400 applications for bartending, waitressing and chef roles in the lead up to the busy Christmas period.
But this year he's received barely any for the six roles he has available and he's blaming it on people prefering to receive the $1100 a fortnight JobSeeker payments than work.
“Usually we wouldn’t have a problem encouraging staff to come and work for us,” Fox-Andrews (above) said. “But what we’ve seen is a decline in applications and a decline in decent staff with experience apply to us. It’s been a tough run.
“We are seeing an element of people not wanting to work because the money is slightly better with JobSeeker.”
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