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There Were More Jobs in Del Norte Than People Looking For Work in June
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Shaun Hartman noticed a shift between how employers relate to their employees toward the end of last summer.
Attrition is common in food service, says Hartman, one of the owners of CC Diner and Ice Cream in Crescent City. The high school and college students who worked during the summer return to their studies in the fall, but workers were leaving food service to work at places like Walmart. This, Hartman said, forced him to ask why.
“During COVID, people began to re-think their relationship to their workplace because the government started sending out these checks to homes these economic stimulus checks,” he told the Wild Rivers Outpost on Thursday. “I know what that’s like to have a windfall of money you immediately begin to look at things you’re doing very differently.”
K8 Students Will Be Back In Class Following Winter Break; Staff Concerned About Lack of Subs
Though many of their peers in Humboldt County are taking an extra two weeks to quarantine after the holidays, Del Norte’s K8 students will return to campus on Jan. 4.
The Del Norte Unified School District Board of Trustees reached this conclusion on Thursday after hearing from parents who said it felt like their children were being punished for other people’s worries about the novel coronavirus.
But staff were more worried about their coworkers and how their jobs would be covered if they needed to self isolate or quarantine after the holidays. Paige Thompson, lead negotiator for the Del Norte Teachers Association, said she was absent for two days before the Thanksgiving break and there was no one to sub for her.