Stimulitis new syndrome keeping workers home
By PAULETTE LeBLANC - | Apr 21, 2021
Most business owners are accustomed to a certain number of employees calling in sick, or quitting, as well as applicants looking for work, but according to many local business owners, this year is nothing like years’ past in that respect.
Luretta Williams-Sims, owner of Capt’n Con’s Fish House, says she can’t find anybody who wants to work and refuses to exhaust faithful employees who do show up.
“I’ve had very few people even apply to do anything,” said Sims, who explained having an employee who worked for a short time and gave one week notice, never to return, and then filed for unemployment. Sims said she responded to the unemployment office explaining that this person did, in fact, have a job and was needed.