(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Half of all hotel and restaurant businesses in Switzerland will go bankrupt by the end of March if they do not receive immediate financial compensation for the effects of coronavirus restrictions, warns the sector's umbrella organisation.
This content was published on January 10, 2021 - 15:23 January 10, 2021 - 15:23 swissinfo.ch/jc
Based on a survey of more than 4,000 of its members, GastroSuisse says 98% of its members need support, and that 'with each wave of coronavirus comes a wave of redundancies'.
'In November and December, there was a second wave of redundancies in the hotel and catering industry,' it said in a press releaseExternal link on Sunday. Almost 60% of businesses that laid off staff during the year had to do so again at the end of 2020, according to GastroSuisse. 'So it is up to the federal government to avert a countrywide disaster and a third wave of job losses in the hotel and restaurant sector.'
GastroSuisse says it rightly warned in October that 100,000 jobs were at risk. 'In the last months, the situation has again worsened particularly because of the government's incomprehensible decision to close restaurants.'
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