Only in Stockholm are thousands of employees missing in the restaurant industry and recruitment has been difficult after the pandemic.

Now the industry organization Visita is giving a boot to the Swedish Public Employment Service, which they believe will not succeed in matching more unemployed people to all the restaurant jobs that appear.

- It does not succeed in doing its job, says Peter Thomelius who is responsible for skills supply at Visita.

SVT has applied to the Swedish Public Employment Service for an answer to the criticism - but they have not returned yet.

Hear Peter Thomelius about the criticism of the employment service in the clip.