Wanted in France: Thousands of Workers as Hotels and Restaurants Reopen
As the world’s most visited country prepares for a long-awaited economic reopening, hospitality businesses warn they are facing a labor shortfall.
Christophe Thieret, a co-manager of the Heintz Group, which owns hotels and restaurants around the riverside city of Metz. He is scrambling to fill as many as 30 jobs.Credit.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
May 3, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
PARIS For six months, Christophe Thieret has been waiting for France’s grinding national lockdowns to be lifted so he can reopen his company’s restaurants and hotels in a picturesque corner of eastern France and recall the 150 employees who were furloughed months ago.
Many job seekers don’t know where to look after the year we’ve just had. If you count yourself among this crowd, here’s how to get back into the market, even if you’re feeling rusty.
Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Conductor, Is to Lead Paris Opera
In a coup, the venerable company has hired as its next music director the rare classical artist to have crossed into pop-culture celebrity.
Gustavo Dudamel rehearsing for his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2018. He has dipped his toe in the operatic repertory but is better known as a symphonic conductor.Credit.Vincent Tullo for The New York Times
When Alexander Neef was named the next director of the mighty Paris Opera in 2019, he did not have a particular candidate in mind to succeed the company’s music director, who was leaving after a decade. “I felt I should consult with the musicians,” Neef said by phone recently, “and see who for them, what for them, how for them the future looked like.”
Artificial intelligence used to evaluate job candidates must not become a tool that exacerbates discrimination.
By Alexandra Reeve Givens, Hilke Schellmann and Julia Stoyanovich
Ms. Givens is the chief executive of the Center for Democracy & Technology. Ms. Schellman and Dr. Stoyanovich are professors at New York University focusing on artificial intelligence.
March 17, 2021
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American democracy depends on everyone having equal access to work. But in reality, people of color, women, those with disabilities and other marginalized groups experience unemployment or underemployment at disproportionately high rates, especially amid the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the use of artificial intelligence technology for hiring may exacerbate those problems and further bake bias into the hiring process.