Difficulties in finding accommodation are a real obstacle for seasonal workers.
To help them, the Brittany region is opening the door to its boarding schools, which will be empty from July 7.
The experiment will first be carried out in two high schools in Dinard and Lamballe with around a hundred beds offered to seasonal workers.
Desperately looking for seasonal.
In the hotel and catering, agri-food or agriculture sectors, the summer promises to be very complicated due to a record labor shortage this year.
If the difficulty or the lack of attractiveness of these professions can discourage candidates, the difficulties in finding accommodation are also a hindrance for seasonal workers.
This is particularly the case in Brittany where rental prices are soaring on the coast with the influx of tourists.
Faced with these recruitment difficulties, local authorities are trying to find solutions.
Manager of high schools, the Brittany region will thus open the doors of its boarding schools which will be emptied of their 12,000 boarding students on July 7 for a period of two months.
The experiment will first be attempted in the Yvon-Bourges high schools in Dinard (Ille-et-Vilaine) and Henri-Avril high schools in Lamballe (Côtes-d'Armor), "two establishments ideally located in relation to job offers for local employers", specifies the community.
A converted holiday center
In Lamballe, about 80 beds will be made available to accommodate people employed in July and August at Cooperl, the French leader in pork.
“The operation, if it proves conclusive, could open up in the next few years to other companies in the territory encountering the same difficulties”, specifies the region.
In Dinard, a very chic seaside resort where prices are unaffordable for seasonal workers, around twenty places will also be offered to hotel and restaurant employees at the Yvon-Bourges high school.
In these two establishments, seasonal workers will pay rent of around 300 euros per month to have access to a single room and collective toilets and showers.
Other similar initiatives have also emerged in the region.
In La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan), the community of municipalities of Auray Quiberon Terre Atlantique has decided to transform a former holiday center closed in 2020 to accommodate around thirty seasonal workers.
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