{"id":6614,"date":"2021-11-18T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6614"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:51:08","slug":"service-workers-are-getting-paid-more-than-ever-its-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6614","title":{"rendered":"Service workers are getting paid more than ever. It\u2019s not enough."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Employers in almost every industry say they\u2019re&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/business-and-finance\/2021\/10\/26\/22733082\/labor-shortage-inflation-immigration-foreign-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struggling to find workers<\/a>, but the situation is especially severe in the leisure and hospitality sector. While workers in these industries are getting paid more than ever, it still doesn\u2019t seem like enough. Bars, restaurants, and hotels across the country are posting signs advertising open jobs \u2014 or asking customers to be patient since they don\u2019t have enough staff. In August, the latest available month for openings and turnover data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were a near-record 1.7 million&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/jolts.a.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open jobs<\/a>&nbsp;in leisure and hospitality \u2014 10 percent of all jobs in the sector \u2014 and a record of nearly a million people&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/jolts.t04.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quitting<\/a>.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;when individual states rescinded their unemployment benefits this summer, it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/20\/business\/economy\/unemployment-benefits-economy-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">didn\u2019t have a meaningful impact<\/a>&nbsp;on the worker shortage in many industries, including leisure and hospitality. Data from September, when the benefits were cut on a federal level, show a similar story, suggesting there are reasons beyond financial keeping people from taking these jobs.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22748448\/service-food-hotel-workers-pay-raise-resignation-jobs-wages-benefits\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22748448\/service-food-hotel-workers-pay-raise-resignation-jobs-wages-benefits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Employers in almost every industry say they\u2019re struggling to find workers, but the situation is especially severe in the leisure and hospitality sector. While workers in these industries are getting paid more than ever, it still doesn\u2019t seem like enough. Bars, restaurants, and hotels across the country are posting signs advertising open jobs \u2014 or asking customers to be patient since they don\u2019t have enough staff. In August, the latest available month for openings and turnover data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were a near-record 1.7 million open jobs in leisure and hospitality \u2014 10 percent of all jobs in the sector \u2014 and a record of nearly a million people quitting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;when individual states rescinded their unemployment benefits this summer, it didn\u2019t have a meaningful impact on the worker shortage in many industries, including leisure and hospitality. Data from September, when the benefits were cut on a federal level, show a similar story, suggesting there are reasons beyond financial keeping people from taking these jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,165,271,635,574,1069],"class_list":["post-6614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-unemployment","tag-workers","tag-working-poor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6615,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions\/6615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}