- June 24, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Yet they’re having to do that, he said, due to trouble filling all available jobs.
Michigan’s unemployment rate in May was 5 percent, while the number of people in the workforce was 216,000 less this spring than just before the pandemic.
“We keep hearing it, across the board,” Calley said, adding that the industries that operated at reduced capacity over the past 15 months are most affected. They include restaurants, bars and event venues.
“Those industries’ … employees had to find other things to do for a living (during the capacity limitations),” Calley said. “The fact that they were last to the pool of available employees puts them at a major disadvantage.”
One reason, he said, appears to be the federal unemployment bonus payment of $300 per week, which is in effect until Labor Day. Another is child care, particularly for lower-wage workers whose pay may rival unemployment benefits but is too much to qualify for childcare…
