Clovis job fair intended to help businesses recover
Last updated 5/1/2021 at 3:17pm
As of Wednesday, 41.6% of New Mexico s eligible residents had received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Once the state hits 60 percent, it will abandon its color-coded system, reopening completely welcome news for restaurants and other local businesses that have been hit hard during the pandemic.
But for now, area businesses are still struggling.
In a press release issued April 28, the Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce reported many businesses and restaurants nationwide and locally are in desperate need of employees. “Without sufficient help, many of them are struggling to stay afloat and a number of local businesses have already closed permanently,” said Rachel Forrester, the Chamber s communications manager.
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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks during a news conference after adjournment of a 60-day legislative session in March. The governor said Wednesday her administration would soon release new policies aimed at getting unemployed New Mexicans back to work. (Eddie Moore/Journal)
SANTA FE Faced with a stubbornly high unemployment rate, New Mexico will soon adopt new policies aimed at encouraging state residents receiving jobless benefits to go back to work, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told Albuquerque business leaders on Wednesday.
While the Democratic governor did not provide details, she indicated the policies would be unveiled in the next week or so and said expanded unemployment benefits should not be a “disincentive” to work.
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New Mexico businesses scramble for new employees
PILAR MARTINEZ, Albuquerque Journal
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Job vacancies at Fresquez Companies have numbered in the dozens for the past several months.
With few applicants and nearly 80 open positions, the company which owns and operates multiple restaurants in New Mexico, including both locations of Mac’s Steak In The Rough and airport eateries like Black Mesa Coffee Company decided extra incentives were needed to bring in applications.
Eventually the company landed on offering a $500 sign-on bonus for every new hire.
“I think part of it is, it’s almost like we’re competing with unemployment,” administrative assistant Dory Nuñez said. “… Why would anybody want to, I guess, start at a minimum wage job when they can be earning more money … on unemployment?”