Low wages spur hospitality sector labor shortagesBy Crystal Hsu / Staff reporterAn ongoing labor shortage in hotels and restaurants is due to low wages rather than imbalanced supply and demand, the Ministry of Labor said yesterday. A Caesar Park Hotels and Resorts employee is pictured in Taipei in an undated photograph. The ministry said it had launched rounds of matching campaigns, and concluded that wage expectation gaps account for the understaffing issues in the hospitality sector. The service sector comprises 60 percent of employment in Taiwan, and there are many potential workers available locally to work at hotels and restaurants, the ministry said. Hospitality operators should lower their qualification requirements or raise compensation to attract applicants to vacancies, it said.
