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What I found most interesting is his statement that this is creating a weird new culture for our society
How so?
What I found most interesting is his statement that this is creating a weird new culture for our society
Have they tried raising the wages offered?There was a similar piece yesterday evening at one of my local news sources. It focused on the restaurant/hospitality industries locally, and the point was made that unemployment benefits are good enough not to motivate people to return to work.
A member of my household works for a winery with an upscale restaurant that has branches in other parts of my state. In between layoffs and furloughs and mandatory drug-testing and across job positions, they can't find anybody--not maintenance people, production line folks, vineyard workers, dishwashers, or servers. They're struggling to keep going and participated in a virtual community-wide job fair last week. Not one potential hire showed up, and I don't mean just for the winery--I mean, not one person showed up period to participate in the job fair. Not even one.
Over the weekend, I heard an interview with a restaurant owner voicing the same frustration about having interviews set up, getting his hopes up, but then the majority of the people end up being no shows to the interview.Oh, I believe it. People aren't traveling or eating out the way they used to, so the hospitality industry's hurting makes sense. But it's more than that, at least in my community. I don't wish to link, so I will paraphrase what a local Hilton manager was quoted in the source I referred to above. He talks about people who apply but fail to show up for interviews or are just no-call/no-show, and he says a big part of this is the enhanced federal unemployment benefits and claims that workers are able to stay home and draw in more money than from going to work.
What I found most interesting is his statement that this is creating a weird new culture for our society. I don't know whether this is true, but if so, I wonder what the consequences will be.
You just need to understand what Joe is saying.
He's telling us that people aren't staying on unemployment because they make more that way than actually cooking fries. They are staying away from those jobs because the cheap bastard employers are refusing to pay $75k/yr for cooking fries.
Anyone making more than 31K a year loses by staying on unemployment benefits. Under 31K they break even or make more excluding days care and transportation costs.He's telling us that people aren't staying on unemployment because they make more that way than actually cooking fries. They are staying away from those jobs because the cheap bastard employers are refusing to pay $75k/yr for cooking fries.
That’s the market speaking, folks.
Refreshing....a company using its head in order to get back to normal operations.
An upscale winery is likely to have upscale pay, more than McDonalds for sure.Have they tried raising the wages offered?
Well I suppose they'll have to pay better wages then, yes?You just need to understand what Joe is saying.
He's telling us that people aren't staying on unemployment because they make more that way than actually cooking fries. They are staying away from those jobs because the cheap bastard employers are refusing to pay $75k/yr for cooking fries.
Do you think the Democrats should increase unemployment benefits even further to see how many more businesses they can get to fail?
Well I suppose they'll have to pay better wages then, yes?
I guess someone else will come along and make a business that can compete then.No, because businesses can't compete with supplying a paycheck for no work.
Supply and demand. Bigger supply of jobs than demand for them. Capitalism.8.1 million job openings. Highest number ever.
Not for small business owners. Which greatly outnumber corporations and big business, who are more likely to absorb the cost.I guess someone else will come along and make a business that can compete then.
Everything we do is to serve the Corporate State, it seems that "small business owners" only come out when labor rights are being considered.Not for small business owners. Which greatly outnumber corporations and big business, who are more likely to absorb the cost.
It was stupid to do it the last time. They knew it but did it anyway. Now that everyone sees that, of course there's not another proposal. Instead we have this BS from Democrats about it being the fault of businesses that nobody wants to work.Your loaded question aside, I do not think increased unemployment benefits should be extended farther than they have been and there is not even a proposal on the table to do so. As is the case with most of the Right these days you are yammering for the sake of yammering.
I know in my neighborhood when the young people got their stimulus check the parties went on late into the night. Plus nobody social distanced or wore a mask. Out of curiosity I asked what the celebration was and was told straight up it was a stimulus party. They even invited me over for beer and food.$600 dollars a week is not enough to live on much less turn down a good job.
Everything we do is to serve the Corporate State, it seems that "small business owners" only come out when labor rights are being considered.
If a business needs labor, they're going to have to offer compensation appropriate to draw labor in. If business needs A LOT of labor, then the power is on the side of the employee or potential employee to market their labor at the appropriate market values.
We have support systems, yes, so that we're not throwing folk out onto the street. If somehow a business can't manage to scrape enough together to offer more than bare minimum then they probably ain't gonna be around too much longer anyway.Again, there is no market labor when the government is providing money, free of labor. Free market labor applies to other competing businesses in which pulls from the labor pool. But not to worry. I do not for see the government providing unemployment forever, unless they want the economy to collapse.
Hindsight is 20/20. Covid Recovery passed on 3/6/2021, fully 2 months ago. Care to look at our total vaccinated numbers on that date, how about total hospitalizations, new cases, deaths? Want to take a look at those numbers.It was stupid to do it the last time. They knew it but did it anyway. Now that everyone sees that, of course there's not another proposal. Instead we have this BS from Democrats about it being the fault of businesses that nobody wants to work.
We have support systems, yes, so that we're not throwing folk out onto the street. If somehow a business can't manage to scrape enough together to offer more than bare minimum then they probably ain't gonna be around too much longer anyway.
What jobs at what wages? The Right simply insists on making black and white assumptions and providing easy answers to complicated questions.Jobs are available everywhere now, so throwing out in the streets is playing to semantics.