Chamber of Commerce seeks end to enhanced weekly jobless aid as hiring stalls
By: Newsy Staff
and last updated 2021-05-07 16:34:03-04
American employers added just 266,000 jobs last month, a sharp downturn from March.
It s a sign businesses are struggling to fill open positions even as the country recovers economically from the pandemic.
Construction companies and manufacturers, particularly automakers, slowed hiring last month due to parts shortages.
Meanwhile, the hospitality sector, which includes restaurants, hotels and venues, is basically begging for workers.
Lots of jobs are going unfilled because people have changed fields or left the workforce during the last year of the pandemic. And of course, some unemployed Americans are still afraid to go back to work due to the coronavirus pandemic and stubbornly high infection rates in certain parts of the country.