There's no labor shortage, just a shortage of businesses willing to pay a decent wage (unemployed, minimum wage)

[warhorse78]

Originally Posted by AnesthesiaMD

When do the stimulus checks stop?

I think that should go a long way toward ending the "labor shortage", no?

I think it's more than just a labor shortage. Many of the supplies needed to keep a business going is also on back order due to the fact many of these items are made in other countries and many of these countries are still shut down or have travel restrictions.

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by AnesthesiaMD

When do the stimulus checks stop?

I think that should go a long way toward ending the "labor shortage", no?

Starve those damn people so that they go back to slave labor jobs!

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by Pilot1

Businesses will pay what the market will bear. That's how free markets and Capitalism works. More skilled and experienced employees get higher pay.

Originally Posted by BELMO45

It makes no sense. All of a sudden people realized they don’t like the pay for these jobs which have been paying these wages for 30 years?

It’s not “all of a sudden”. And, no, they haven’t been “paying these wages for 30 years”.

I worked for a cruise line in 2000. CSRs are making LESS than what I made 21 years ago.

There’s a big, fat problem.

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by Pilot1

Businesses will pay what the market will bear. That's how free markets and Capitalism works. More skilled and experienced employees get higher pay.

And those businesses that don't pay decent wages, go out of business.

[Nov3]

The fat cat, got lean from this shut down.

The tide has turned. The labor force has the upper hand. And not handling it as well as they could.
I'd be more long term in my employment career. Not the money grab now ...to be on the streets next year.

A year without practicing a skill....leaves some below bar.

Business should hire on strength not on just filling seats.

[remco67]

when the unemployment perks, the stimulus checks and the eviction moratoriums end there will be no shortage of labor. It's amazing what missing a few meals and facing living on the street will do for you. Not every Mom and Dad are gong to allow them to move back home. The people with any intelligence and a modicum of work ethic would have been using this last year to learn skills to get a decent paying job. If you have been sitting on your butt learning how to kick ass on Fortnite well I have little pity. We all have a choice in life and if you keep making bad decisions sooner or later they catch up with you.

[AnesthesiaMD]

Originally Posted by jojajn

Starve those damn people so that they go back to slave labor jobs!

Soooo, you're saying the taxpayers should continue paying people who don't want to work, indefinitely?

Is that your brilliant plan?

[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by anesthesiamd

when do the stimulus checks stop?

I think that should go a long way toward ending the "labor shortage", no?

09/06/21

[AnesthesiaMD]

Originally Posted by BobNJ1960

09/06/21

So I guess some time in October, this labor shortage will magically vanish.

[yspobo]

Originally Posted by rstevens62

I thought it was interesting to see many restaurants around here, when they had severe staffing problems...instead of going to 'automation' like so many warned they would do...instead, they closed early and/or only opened on certain days.

Here they are keeping the lobbies closed and using the supposed labor shortage as an excuse. Last year many of them decided they would rather stick with drive thru/curbside only and are using this as the reason.