As businesses struggle to hire workers, organization pushes for end to federal unemployment aid
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BATON ROUGE - With Cinco de Mayo, Mother s day and graduations, last week was a booming week for restaurants, but the boost in business came at a price. Everybody pretty much worked doubles. Just encoded payroll and there s a lot of overtime this week. Really everybody is just exhausted, said Jim Urdiales, with Mestizo.
It s a trend small businesses have been seeing for months now.
According to the Louisiana chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, 44 percent can t find enough workers. That s twice the amount of their 48 year average.
This time the US really is heading into a serious inflation storm
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11 May 2021 • 12:28pm
The US labour market is as tight as a drum. Small firms cannot find workers, and hourly wages are suddenly surging. It screams incipient inflation.
The National Federation of Independent Businesses said 45pc of its members are struggling to fill positions, the highest since the modern series began in the early 1970s.
It may soon be time to ask whether the US is in the foothills of an inflationary wage-price spiral, compounding the commodity price spiral that has been underway for several months.
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by Andy OâBrien Sign at the West Front Market in Skowhegan
Andy O’Brien is communications director at Maine AFL-CIO. Ah spring. Lockdown restrictions have been loosened, COVID vaccines are widely available and Mainers are ready to get back to their pre-pandemic lives and enjoy the summer. And if you listen closely you can hear the collective freak-out from the retail, food and hospitality industry as they realize their once-abundant pool of cheap labor has dried up.
All over social media, these employers have been lashing out and blaming their inability to attract workers on pandemic unemployment benefits. Even though the pandemic is still raging (I write this in my second week of quarantine after my family tested positive), business owners argue that the “Now Hiring” signs everywhere are an indication that everyone without a jo
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Saturday, May 8, 2021
With COVID cases falling and states across the country reopening, the economy should be rebounding. But the latest jobs data show that the unemployment rate actually increased in April, ticking up to 6.1 percent.
A new survey of small businesses helps shed some light on why the labor market is still stuck in a rut. The National Federation of Independent Businesses is the most prominent small business association in the US, and its new poll numbers reveal that small businesses have job openings but are desperately struggling to attract employees.
Job openings soar to highest level on record, 8.1 million
May 11, 2021 / 1:34 PM / CBS/AP Inside April s disappointing jobs report
U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, illustrating starkly the desperation of businesses seeking to find new workers as the economy expands after the pandemic recession.
Yet total hiring increased only modestly, according to a Labor Department report issued Tuesday. The figures come after a Friday report showed that job gains in April fell far short of expectations, largely because companies appear unable to find the workers they need, even with the unemployment rate elevated at 6.1%.
Job openings rose nearly 8%, to 8.1 million in March, the most on record dating back to December 2000, the government said. Yet overall hiring in March rose less than 4%, to 6 million. The hiring number is a gross figure, while the government s jobs report which said 770,000 jobs were added in March uses a net total.