Agency takes steps to fight local labor shortage resulting from COVID pandemic
Stephen Kindland, Times-News correspondent Local manufacturers have increased their supply chains during the past several months despite the COVID-19 pandemic, but they’re having difficulty increasing production due to lack of manpower. Brittany Brady, president and CEO of the Henderson County Partnership for Economic Development, estimates that supply chains among the partnership’s 133 listed members have increased 10 to 30 percent, but an unemployment rate of 3.1 percent prior to the pandemic that began early last spring has risen to 4.9%. “There should be more people in the labor ...