Pushing up employer NI could fuel fee rise or leave firms unable to deliver on some dates, industry warns
Firms such as Amazon, Royal Mail, Evri and Yodel have launched major recruitment drives in recent months will hit a delivery industry which is already struggling to meet demand ahead of Christmas, the Government has been warned.
Mr Carberry added that in the longer term, customers might find that deliveries get more expensive than they have been in recent years.“I think consumers have already seen many of the impacts of rising employment costs, if you think about things like the increase in automation in restaurants, fewer service staff covering more tables for instance, the cost of things like delivery going up,” he added.
Mr Carberry added, however, that delivery services are not likely to be hit as hard as retail or hospitality. Jack Kennedy, senior economist at Indeed, said hiring demand had been “subdued” lately, with job postings 14 per cent below pre-pandemic levels and gradually falling over the past two years.
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