Updated: August 7, 2026
HoReCa
Staff for hotels and restaurants in Ukraine
WORKIN recruits kitchen porters, stewards, housekeepers, laundry staff and housekeeping teams. In groups sized for a hotel or a chain of venues.
We cover the back of house: kitchen, stewarding, floors, laundry. Guest-facing roles are a separate conversation.
What it is and how it works
Kitchen, floors and laundry without empty shifts
WORKIN recruits kitchen workers, stewards, housekeepers, laundry and facilities staff. The hotel or chain names the shifts that stay unfilled, and we assemble a group to your standards and bring people to their first service.
First we fix the profile: kitchen stations, room cleaning standard, laundry equipment, schedule and peak days. HoReCa is staffed from visa-free countries - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan - where lead times are short and most back-of-house positions need no rare qualification. For assistant cooks we recommend a short video interview.
You approve the people, the migration partner handles the permit and documents, and WORKIN arranges arrival, housing and the commute to the venue when needed. For the first shifts a newcomer works alongside an experienced worker to your hotel's standard. Resorts should plan arrival two months before the season so the group has time to learn.
- people per hotel or chain
- 10-150
- to start from visa-free countries
- 4-7 weeks
- visa-free recruitment countries
- 4
- worker replacement guarantee
- 6 months
The problem we solve
A venue stops because of the wash-up, not the chef
In hospitality the first to disappear are not head chefs but the people the dining room never sees: stewards, kitchen porters, housekeepers. And it is because of them that a shift fails to open.
Back-of-house turnover is the highest in the venue
A kitchen porter or steward stays a few months. That is not a motivation problem, it is the nature of the role.
The season doubles the load in two weeks
A resort or holiday season multiplies guest numbers, while the headcount stays where it was in winter.
Without stewards the whole kitchen stops
No clean crockery and equipment means the chef does not send dishes out. One unfilled role slows the entire service.
Floors do not make check-in
If there are not enough housekeepers, rooms are not ready for arrival. Guests see that immediately and the hotel's rating takes the hit.
Who we recruit
Roles, tasks and exactly what we verify
We work with roles where pace, stamina and hygiene decide the outcome, not language level and guest-facing skills.
Kitchen porter
- Tasks
- Primary food preparation, peeling, cutting, preparing mise en place
- Experience
- From 3 months or none
- What we verify
- Pace, care, readiness for kitchen heat
- Shift pattern
- Two shifts, days off by rota
Steward
- Tasks
- Washing crockery and kitchen equipment, keeping the kitchen area clean
- Experience
- None required
- What we verify
- Physical stamina, pace during peak service
- Shift pattern
- Two shifts
Housekeeper
- Tasks
- Cleaning rooms, changing linen, preparing rooms for arrival
- Experience
- From 3 months
- What we verify
- Care, speed, working to the hotel standard
- Shift pattern
- Day shift
Laundry worker
- Tasks
- Washing, drying, pressing and sorting hotel linen
- Experience
- From 3 months
- What we verify
- Work with industrial equipment, attention to detail
- Shift pattern
- Two shifts
Housekeeping assistant
- Tasks
- Cleaning public areas, waste removal, support work
- Experience
- None required
- What we verify
- Discipline, working with guests present
- Shift pattern
- Two shifts
Commis chef
- Tasks
- Working a station under the chef, preparing dishes to the recipe card
- Experience
- From 1 year in a kitchen
- What we verify
- Experience on the specific station, hygiene requirements
- Shift pattern
- Two shifts
We do not recruit waiters, bartenders or front desk staff: those roles turn on conversational language and guest interaction, which is a different task with a different timeline.
Where we recruit from
Countries, roles and timelines
Hospitality is covered from visa-free directions: the timeline is short and most back-of-house roles need no rare qualification.
Pick the role, the number of people and the timing - we will show when they start
01Most frequent roles
02How many people
03When you need them
- Realistic time to the first shift
- 4-7 weeks
- Replacement guarantee
- 6 months
- Cost
- Calculated for your terms
Practical time to start: Visa-free routes - 4-7 weeks · Work permit - 2-4 weeks · Paperwork after arrival - 3-5 weeks
Strong routes: Uzbekistan · Tajikistan · Kyrgyzstan · Azerbaijan
Who runs the project
Who is responsible for the venue's staff
Terms with the venue, group arrivals and work with people in their own language are handled by different specialists, and you get status updates from one manager.
Olena Lytvynenko
Head of enterprise projects
Takes the need by shift and department and agrees the arrival date and contract terms.
Andrii Savchuk
Deputy director
Arranges group arrivals, housing and the commute to the venue around the shift schedule.
Azamat Toktogulov
Worker relations manager
Runs recruitment in Kyrgyzstan and supports people in their own language.
Elchin Hasanov
Worker relations manager
Recruits workers in Azerbaijan and stays in touch with the group after arrival.
Contract
HoReCa project documents
We recruit the group under the recruitment and migration support contract. Staff housing is covered by a separate contract, and if people should stay on WORKIN's staff, we work under a staff provision contract.
We send the templates before signing so your lawyer has time to review them.
Cases and project scenarios
How this works on hotel and restaurant projects
Below are delivered WORKIN projects. Company names are withheld under confidentiality terms; everything else is shown as it happened.
Agriculture and food
Launching a packaging shift at a food plant
There was nobody to staff the extra shift: local response did not cover the need.
View case →
Warehousing and logistics
Warehouse complex: pickers for an extended shift
Extending the shift ran into a shortage of pickers.
View case →
Manufacturing
Woodworking: machine operators and sorters
Areas stood idle for lack of operators, sorters and packers.
View case →
Construction
Construction: reinforcing the crew at the concrete stage
The concrete stage needed people with real experience, not general labourers.
View case →
Questions and answers
What venues ask about hospitality recruitment
Answers to the questions that come up before a project starts.
No. Those roles turn on conversational language and guest interaction, which is a different task with its own timeline. We cover the back of house: kitchen, stewarding, floors, laundry and housekeeping.
Yes, for anyone entering the kitchen or the laundry. Willingness to obtain one is checked at interview; the process itself takes several days after arrival.
In the kitchen and on floors, yes. A short set of calls does the job, and the briefing is delivered in a language the group genuinely understands. A coordinator works with the group.
Two months before the start. The route takes 4-7 weeks plus a week to learn the standards. A request three weeks before the peak will not work.
If there is no company housing, WORKIN finds where to place the group and organises transport to shifts. For resort properties this is almost always a separate part of the project.
Readiness to work holidays is checked at interview and written into the profile. In hospitality it is the main source of conflict, so we talk it through before tickets.
Enough to cover a full shift including the peak. One unfilled steward position slows the whole service, so saving on the back of house does not work.
The contractual replacement term applies. In a hotel this shows within the first week: the room or station standard is checked every day.
Request
Describe the venue and we will size the group and the timeline
- 01A manager reviews the request and clarifies details
- 02You receive a route, a timeline and a cost structure for your project
- 03Any contract decision comes only after the estimate
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