Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?
BBC News By Evan Davis image captionThe boss of Youngs Transportation says a lacks of HGV drivers is made worse by a shortage to driver training test slots. It's not often that economies face the disruption we've endured in the last year, and none of us should be surprised that it's taking the labour market a while to settle down. But some are wondering whether Covid is triggering an historic rebalancing of power between the bosses and the workers. No-one in their right mind would compare Covid to the Black Death, which wiped out enough of the workforce in the 14th Century for peasant labou...