Martin says he’s not the only one having trouble finding work, and according to a new study, remote work is offered as an option to more than half of all workers in the US.
Karen Johnson (right) has not found a job in the traditional market despite a higher degree and years of professional experience. Until now, it has been highly skilled, well-educated workers who have also had difficulty making ends meet. This has led to a mismatch in job openings and contributed to a painful and slow job recovery.
I met my friend Karen Jennings-Crooms at a job fair to talk about my options and I’m still looking for a new job.
Lawmakers suspended work and search obligations until 2020 last year because of the pandemic, but Democrat Tom Wolf administratively extended the waiver for another year. Wolf’s office also declined to say when he might reintroduce them, even as his administration prepares to drop remaining pandemic restrictions on the gathering in business capacity starting Memorial Day. This story has been amended from original to reflect a change in the number of workdays in Pennsylvania in search of workers during the outbreak.
Some argue that employers are having difficulty finding workers and are often blamed for the high unemployment rate in the US and other parts of the world, but not in Pennsylvania.
The federal unemployment benefit, which has been in place since September, provides an additional $300 a week in benefits on top of the government’s. The additional $300 a week is earmarked for the week ending September 4.
Many employers interviewed by the CT Examiner for this story cited employment benefits as a reason for workers to stay home, but they said that their pandemic – due to financial constraints – often made it impossible for them to offer wages that were competitive with additional benefits. Many of them cited the employment benefit as the reason why the workers stayed home. He also said that Saybrook Point Resort is focusing on closing its gap with employees by hosting a job fair on May 15 and highlighting the benefits for employees in ads and on social media. Chris Konicki, owner of the New Haven-area restaurant, restaurant and bar, said he hears every day from businesses that are having trouble finding employees.
He is not worried about the length of his unemployment yet, but he will become even more anxious if it goes beyond January. He said the long-term unemployed were at a disadvantage because they could not keep their skills up to date while designers were learning the latest tools. That’s exactly what Joe Campos, 42, who lost his job as an art director at Mattel in May, did by developing a new design for a consumer goods company and adding it to his portfolio.
In short, many of his clients were ready to return, but there were few applicants available to serve them. He had taken a creative job at junior level to get back into the game quickly, he said.
In the restaurant and bar industry, which is most affected by fears of a labor shortage, Google searches for job openings fell sharply and began to level off, Zhao found, dropping by as much as 15 percent since March 1 and settling last week at about 10 percent lower.
The number of vacancies in online listings has increased by 5 million since the start of the pandemic, but discouraged, hesitant, and anxious job seekers mean that many vacancies remain unfilled. The number of online job advertisements dropped to just 6 million last May after closure and closure orders forced companies to close their doors, reduce their staff numbers or lie to workers. If companies can regain forecasting, they will not hire quickly enough to meet booming demand, even though the number of vacancies has risen to nearly 15 million by mid-March.
The bar graph from ZipRecruiter shows that the employment rate remains sluggish, despite the increase in job advertisements. By mid-March, more than 30 million people had filed for unemployment – more than three times the number who lost their jobs in the two-year-long Great Recession. The rich and the best-connected see their wealth soar, while middle and working-class families drown in debt that deepens with each passing week.
Francois, who works at Betsy’s Hotel, is looking for a job as a supplier with his stimulus package, according to the New York Times.
The number of unemployed in the United States is 12.6 million, compared with 5.7 million a year earlier, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. He is at home trying to teach his 4-year-old son letters and numbers while his wife works as a nurse in a hospital.
The 45-year-old single mother made a living shopping for Instacart, whose orders have quintupled in the past year as consumers shun going to the shops. But she was fired in March and is now among those laid off, despite having a career in digital communications on her resume. Still, Hanley can barely make ends meet, she said, and while living off the money, she lugs food and dips into a college savings account reserved for her 11-year-old and son.
