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Joe Napsha And Julia Felton Saturday, April 10, 2021 7:00 a.m. | Saturday, April 10, 2021 7:00 a.m. Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review Joey Marshall pours a beer and Pamela Juart pours wine for customers at Woody’s Piazza Bar at Antonelli Event Center in Irwin. Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. “Help wanted” signs at restaurants across the region are as noticeable as menus, as businesses scramble to hire enough workers t...

THE ISSUE In the Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline “Watchdog” column, reporter Chad Umble examined the sources of complaints about local restaurants’ noncompliance with COVID-19 prevention measures imposed by the state. Wrote Umble: “During more than a year of state-imposed restrictions meant to slow the spread of COVID-19, restaurants have been a focus of many of the mitigation efforts, with the Agriculture Department’s restaurant inspectors on the front lines. While inspectors may be enforcing the rules, they haven’t actually been the main ones monitoring for compli...

As Lancaster County restaurants search desperately for employees, a trove of experienced workers remains on the sidelines, state data shows. They are the 634 countians who’ve been laid off from restaurants and bars and who filed claims with the state Department of Labor & Industry during the week ended March 27, saying they want to keep drawing unemployment compensation.  They represent 7.7% of the 8,200 continued claims filed by countians that week, one of the largest single categories of claimants. That figure excludes countians who’ve exhausted those year-long benefits and ...

Workers Lose Jobs, Labor Force Shrinks February 3, 2021 Thousands of workers continued to exit the southwestern Pennsylvania labor force, and the local unemployment rate ticked upward as the pandemic year of 2020 drew to a close. The seven-county Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose from 6.7 percent in November to 6.8 percent in December 2020, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor Center for Workforce Information & Analysis program data. During the holiday season, some counties in the region f...