Businesses across the Suncoast desperately searching for workers Jobs a plenty on the Suncoast and hiring managers like Nicholas Jones at Ford s Garage are doing what they can to hire on qualified applicants in our area. (Source: WWSB) By ABC7 Staff | May 11, 2021 at 4:10 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 4:10 PM
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) -Job openings across the country hitting a record high, according to the Labor Department’s latest report. It shows just how desperate businesses are in trying to find workers.
Job openings rose nearly 8 percent, to 8.1 million, in March. It’s the most on record since December of 2000. A survey done by the National Federation of Independent Business found that 44% of small businesses have jobs that can’t be filled.
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Cancel extra $300, federal unemployment programs, Michigan business group urges
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As employers struggle to find workers, Michigan could make it easier by canceling the extra $300 in jobless benefits and getting rid of federal unemployment programs, a state business group says.
At least four states already decided to stop accepting federal unemployment benefits in mid-to-late June – Montana, South Carolina, North Dakota and Iowa.
Michigan should join them, says the Michigan chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business.
“There are just too many jobs and too many people who are not incentivized to take them,” said Charles Owens, Michigan director of the NFIB.
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At the East End Grill in downtown Lafayette, business is back and it s booming. This time last year, we were closed, said owner Scott Trzaskus. We re really excited to see people coming back out and seeing confidence in the industry (a year after the pandemic began).
But servers have to be especially fast on their feet to keep up. That s because the restaurant is struggling with one key ingredient. Staffing s a challenge, Trzaskus said. I ve never seen anything like this.
Longtime restaurant owners across the country say now that their establishments are open again, the customers are back. But many of those employees who were laid off last year in the pandemic some 215,000 restaurant workers in Indiana alone are nowhere to be found.
United States employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, illustrating starkly the desperation of businesses trying to find new workers as the country emerges from the coronavirus pandemic and the economy expands.
Yet total job gains increased only modestly, according to a US Department of Labor (DOL) report issued Tuesday. The figures follow an April jobs report last week that was far weaker than expected, largely because companies appear unable to find the workers they need, even with the unemployment rate elevated at 6.1 percent.
Job openings rose nearly 8 percent, to 8.1 million in March, the most on records dating back to December 2000, the government said. Yet overall hiring that month rose less than 4 percent to 6 million.