Hiring is risky, within today’s regulatory climate. That next employee could turn out to be the transvestite that demands you pay for its sex change. Or a grievance-group “victim” that sues you and ruins your business.
That doesn’t even begin to explore the minefield that is Obamacare.
I don’t know that this is the *entire* reason for failing to fill jobs that need filling — but I bet it explains part of it, at least.
Retail jobs for our retail, debt ridden economy.
This reflects what I’m seeing in my own industry. The labor market is definitely getting tighter, but it’s really in a very narrow band of my profession. It’s like we’ve thinned the herd of workers in the 40-60 age group and we can’t find enough competent 25-30 year-olds to replace them.
Bunk.
America has a shrinking group of jobs, but our economy is held together because a huge bunch of people are on the government support.
Huge.
America need more jobs. A lot more jobs. Almost 100 million more jobs.
94,000,000 in fact.
Trump is the only one, who is saying this. That is why Trump is far and away, leading.
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So they’re saying more jobs are available but people aren’t taking the bait.
Odd in this environment, unemployment still high, people hurting financially, it seems they would jump at the chance for anything. I’ve seen plenty reports of people taking part time jobs just to get by while they keep their fingers crossed for something better.
So now we have a surplus of openings, but nobody being hired. He doesn’t go into detail though, is this because people (who are already hurting) are turning down chances due to insufficient wages? And what type of jobs? Nothing about that. Blue collar labor, high tech, business?
Then there’s regional. Out here where I live there’s nothing to begin with, even in a better economy. I Have to drive 30 miles to the nearest decent size town, that means if I go looking I’m putting a $100 bill in the gas tank every week. Can’t do that unemployed. And the biggest local business just announced they will be shutting down their foundry operation, which has been going for well over 30 years. No word yet how many layoffs, or I missed it.
That floods the local market with people looking, and nothing happening here I know of to offset it. Same thing when I was here before, paper mill shut down, 500 people or so out of work (long before Obama, I think Clinton was just leaving office) Then Lufkin Trailers closed, and no big operations opening around here so we had hundreds of people looking and no jobs available.
This is strange, but not enough detail here to tell what area of employment he’s talking about, what geographical areas are affected most, or what pay scales are affected.
Job openings and actual hiring are NOT the same thing. Many companies post job openings to see who they get. But they will not hire unless they get a pitch perfect candidate.
Aren’t we a bit early for the Friday Silliness Thread??
Anything about if they are part-time vs full-time or wage growth? I imagine with the participation rate where it is that there are indeed jobs available - as this data shows, but doubt people are willing to take part time work at wages that have not tracked with inflation when they can get more from the govt for doing nothing.
Why so defensive?