The governors of Montana, South Carolina, and Arkansas have rejected the increased pandemic unemployment benefits. They say itâs creating perverse incentives for people not to return to work.
According to CBS News, other states are pondering similar measures in light of Fridayâs report from the Department of Labor showing that the economy added 266,000 jobs in April, far fewer than the one million experts expected
On Sunday, Utah Governor Spencer Cox told CNN he thinks exiting pandemic-related unemployment benefits is a good idea, arguing the recent lower-than-expected jobs report is âwhat happens when we pay people not to work.â
Eventually the company landed on offering a $500 sign-on bonus for every new hire.
“I think part of it is, it’s almost like we’re competing with unemployment,” administrative assistant Dory Nuñez said. “… Why would anybody want to, I guess, start at a minimum wage job when they can be earning more money … on unemployment?”
Fresquez Companies isn’t alone in the struggle to find employees.
Help wanted signs are cropping up in the windows of many restaurants and businesses around the city and state.
“It’s a big struggle,” Twisters COO Bahjat Shariff said. “People are making a lot more money being unemployed than employed, and the world is coming back to dine-in and eat-in a little bit at a time, so the stimulus really paused people applying to jobs.”