@LaMelo Ball is that all you gonna take about? No wages increases still bring inflation but once people talk about wage growth you people just start shouting inflation as if it wasn’t happening before.
Wage stagnation since the 1970s. Minimum wage should be $26hr . People won’t work if they cannot afford a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. Don’t be fooled. Covid didn’t cause this but provided an opportunity to pay attention. We are STILL in a pandemic.
Been out of work for a while, applied for one of these low paying entry level jobs, they told me i'm over qualified, wouldn't be happy there and good luck. Don't tell me that there's a worker shortage! There's a shortage of employers who want to give workers a living wage.
There is more to it than that. It has to do with the fact that if they don't hire people but show they are actively looking for someone they get benefits from the government for it
What's a livable wage. I'm from the silicon valley, minimum wage is almost $16 an hour, and people still can't live on, because it causes inflation in our area (I'm not just saying that out of fear, everyone in the area knows it's a fact).
this shows just how essential low income jobs are for the US economy and how quickly things can change, when those jobs are vacant. dont let anybody tell you, that your job isnt needed or is not good enough.
if you get 15$ an hour 400$ is equivalent of the 200h getting 17$. If working 8 hours a day its basically means a month of elevated wage. (400$ + 15$/h = 25days of 17$/h)
No they don’t. Just need more cheap imported labor. You think they are only good to work the farm fields picking vegetables? No, they can do anything. You want it like this. Lots of poor afghans coming. You love it.
@@JR-yu5tf young person here: I’m not getting ANY government aid, I’m just going into debt, idgaf because it’s better than risking my long-term health to slave away for non-living-wages. We can hold out longer than you, you need us employees more than we need you employers :) cut aid all you want, it doesn’t matter to me :P if some employers don’t want to offer living wages, then their business will die, because they aren’t gonna be able to compete with employers that do offer a living wage :)
Kapitalist just want more cheap labor. So congress created 20 work visa categories, only one work visa pays federal income tax. The other 19 visa categories pay no federal income or social security tax.
They'll just call Americans lazy and tell congress to bring in immigrants to take those jobs. Then, when unemployment benefits run out, those people won't be able to get those jobs anymore.
That shouldn't be the case on a correctly organized budget. That means more than half your pay is going towards housing and you can't afford the house you're living in and need to move.
That's the point! Housing shouldn't take half your pay, but it does because there are not affordable options. You can't move to a place that more appropriately fits your budget when such a place doesn't exist.
And yet everyone thinks having several kids is a right instead of a privilege, and then the poor complain that they can't both work and afford child care.
@@icebreaker9995 Most large corps are decentralized enough to function without direction from chief execs, but good luck running a Walmart if your stockers won't work for peanuts.
This. I worked in HR for a major grocery chain and we had a major shortage of meat cutters. Our HR department was so desperate for meat cutters they tried to hire retirees. What was really galling was that HR complained about the retirees not wanting to work more hours! When I asked our HR manager if they had a training program to train new meat cutters within he didn't say anything! The major issue with American companies is that they don't want to spend any money on training people. They expect to hire people knowing things already.
Gone are the days when employers could treat you as disposable during an interview process. They could ignore you, ghost you, and they didn’t have to be on THEIR best behavior
Oh so y’all not going to mention that employee pay was at an all time low as well as job satisfaction and these are two huge factors as to why people are not returning to work
Except big businesses will continue eating up small businesses until government realize they should help small local businesses rather than tax breaks for mega corporations
@Jeff Bruce also I don’t personally believe that the vax causes autism and I agree that those people should be educated on what vaccines typically contain (I’m not a Dr so I don’t really know either lol). But I’m waiting until the FDA is able to approve the vaccine for safe use before I get it myself. Within the first three days of administering the vaccine in January, around 6,000 Americans lost their lives and 11,000 Europeans lost theirs. That statistic is scary enough for me not to want the vaccine at this current moment. My friends 72 year old mother received the vaccine in the beginning of June, and she’s still in the ICU fighting for her life. She has no previous health issues and was previously full of vil and vigor, but not we’re all just hoping that she can leave the hospital one last time before she inevitably passes. These are sad times that we live in no doubt.
Houses by me start at 400K, to afford that you need to make at least $30/hr and to not be house poor you need two incomes at that. $15/hr or free food is a joke idk why the media keeps pushing for $15/hr
Well, I just found out yesterday that two of my local fast-food restaurants can't fill the night shift. They're paying $15.5 in one and $18.5 in another one. If those employees were to work 40 hrs/week, their net income would not and does not allow them to live alone (say you're a young single person w/o children) in an apartment. Rents in Southern California are pretty high, a 1BR goes between, $2000 - $2200, that's just a basic apt., not a luxury one with all the amenities. Then, you start adding all your expenses in addition to rent: utilities, cable, phone, groceries, eating out, gas, car insurance, parking, parking tickets, car maintenance, medicines, health insurance, clothing, laundry (bc you don't have your own washer and dryer), fees from the places that cash your cks bc you don't have a cking and savings acct., credit card fees, etc. They have to work at least 3 jobs to make ends meet and there is no money for vacation or savings. Now imagine all those young workers that have one or more kids and have to pay for childcare. There's no way. Hourly wages have been stagnant since the 1970s while the wealthy keep getting wealthier. In Southern California, minimum wage workers would have to make $23/hr, just to make ends meet, probably more. And, that is not to live in luxury like all those shows that you see on HGTV. It is tough out there, and if you add the fears that still exist about the pandemic, the multiple variants, and the people who refuse to get vaccinated, it is not looking good.
Studies show there is not one county in the US where a person working minimum wage can rent a two bedroom apartment. Older folks staying in workforce longer Good middle income jobs were shipped overseas by American capitalists to increase profits by paying slave wages in developing countries. They didn’t care what it would do here. Me me me. There are a ton of low wage jobs. People who are highly educated are competing for these jobs and have been . This isn’t the 50s when there were strong unions, social safety net. Now people work multiple jobs, both adults work, still cannot afford the lifestyle our parents and grandparents enjoyed. So give it a rest.
It's very interesting watching Miss Rothschild saying they'd do anything to get people in except paying people a better living wage. Notice this, her title is a Chief Human Resources Officer. The average salary in the USA for one of those goes for $253k a year. I don't know what her precise salary is but it's definitely not that far off from that number if not greater. Meanwhile, the average salary for someone who works at Front Desk or as an Attendant makes $23.5k in comparison. If you don't see the glaring obvious disproportional pay here because this company does over supposedly $2 billion then something is wrong with you. All the cash flow and profit are primarily going to the shareholders and business owner of the company meanwhile the people who are making Omni Hotels & Resorts a functioning profitable business are being paid scraps. This MUST change if you want to survive. Don't blame the unemployment benefits or lack of child care, blame the greed and mishandling of money at the top to not be able to pay people appropriately.
And let’s not forget removing the barriers to entry. She talked about having employees come for two rounds and Omni being able take their time. Many of “low skill / low wage” workers don’t have access to cars or can afford multiple days off (lack of PTO) to interview. You would expect the chief HR to know how to recruit and having an efficient hiring practices even in the best of times.
@@Patrick3183 they don’t. As simple as that. If you can’t afford to pay your workers a livable wage then what’s the difference between you and a slave owner, eh?
@@Patrick3183 small businesses are a joke, look around almost everything is consolidated. What’s the last time you took a small business airline to a different city? Or the last time you went to a small business to get your prescription glasses? Or a small business to buy your laptop? This small business fallacy is stupid.
I wonder which was more expensive. Keeping the original employees on staff throughout the pandemic? Or the costs from incentives/trainings/lost business from being understaffed.
Who wants to work in a restaurant or dealing with the public in 2021 when Karen, her husband, Kai'Ren (Karen with melanin) and everybody with smart phones are ready to record you and post you on social media?
Not once did they try paying people a better permanent wage. That $1,500 they were offering is nice but that only works out to approximately $0.73 an hour for only one year, ridiculous! Just pay people a living wage.
Double all wages. Stop disrespecting the work force with perpetual poverty wages. Even skilled labor jobs are underpaid. We’re working harder than ever and we only see diminishing returns due to cost of living reaching ridiculous levels. Pay up. Hoarding money won’t work forever. Money and wealth need to stay in the consumer economy and not tied up in assets.
Since the hospitality and tourism industry are labor partly by seasonal and international workers, it's likely that most potential workers have exited the country
This would be a good time to adopt some alternative forms of worker education/training and certifications through apprenticeships combine with school education which we know is working really well in some European countries. You don´t only get good staff, but you bind the workers to you. While the worker becomes qualified and eligible for good pay.
Underrated comment. It makes too much sense though. Corporations in America would rather just whine to our politicians. Hence why 20 States have cut unemployment benefits much needed bonus early. Ironically, they act as if the costs of goods and services didn't increase in 2020.
My ex worked in the restaurant industry and was a server. There would be days where she would make five bucks in an afternoon 4 hour shift. Five fuqing bucks...ridiculous! Slow weekdays between lunch and dinner. I don't blame anyone that works and earns tips for a living to stay at home and use any benefits to the maximum extent.
So many people are making these claims if workers were treated better, they would join. They don't understand that the economics of this mess is horrible.
That’s exactly the problem. We’re overqualified for jobs that want to pay us nothing. If we can, we’re going to try and find better jobs. The stimulus checks are giving us that chance. Either businesses get with the workers, or they can ask for government intervention (which they nearly always do).
@@user-id9bn1ic9v Companies should try and give better wages for workers if they are worth it! No doubt. But when someone is being paid for attending the interview, they are not giving it to you because you are overskilled, it's because the labor market is not looking for jobs due to high unemployment benefits remaining in place.
@@user-id9bn1ic9v While a higher wage would be great, many businesses would be unable to pay that high of a salary, due to the fact that the economy is only now just recovering, and they still have to compete with the government's extremely high unemployment benefits.
@@omgaddad5596 No problem with that, but they have to make the profit and the salaries of the management public for the net 5 years, including the bonuses.
In trucking sign on bonuses are usually scams they come with a lot of loopholes and your not paid enough for staying out on the road for weeks at a time with little time off not even worth having a home when your only showing up to dust wash and all your groceries are left rotting
This is honestly the best thing to happen in the work place for low wage earners. I work in tech and they constantly compete for talent and the reason I have friends getting 15 to 20k pay bumps switching jobs is because these companies have to compete for talent. If that means an extra 3 - 5 bucks an hour in these places then good... I hope it continues. I also have this weird suspicion that a lot of people are like me and picked up trades, started companies, and just moved to alternative ways to make money. Prepandemic I was driving for Uber. I started a coding bootcamp prior to the pandemic and now post pandemic I make $80,000 as an Associate Software Engineer. I hope anyways... imagine wasting that down time just to return back to what you were previously doing. Thats wasted opportunity.
I have a pretty good paying job and maybe I shouldn't say this and that but honestly people are finally starting to wake up. Companies are the ones that decide on pumping up prices on goods and services.. not us, then they want to pay with nickels and dimes. People are just getting sick of watching millionaires billionaires not paying their taxes while we have to do all the work.
Only people who actively look for job are counted as unemployed. So for States with generous unemployment benefits these people who are comfortable with unemployment benefits hence not looking for jobs are simply not counted. Therefore the lower unemployment rate. Economics 101
The fact is as an American living in the United States the most powerful and wealthy nation on the planet. I'm entitled to that wealth. Our labor is what made America Great. We deserve Subsides Childcare, We Deserve Universal Healthcare no one should be sick with our modern technology it's greedy and disgusting behavior. No American should be living in poverty, we need to cancel billionaires. No one should be a billionaire no one earns or deserves that much money, you only get that money from stealing if from your employees. We need a wealth tax to fund the things Americans Deserve.
Now the big thing is bonuses for new hires? That’s fine and all but what about the people who are already working there and been for months years? Do they get a bonus? When the lock down happen I didn’t get time off. I’m an auto mechanic and my shop is offering hiring bonuses and current techs are asking our managers where is our bonus. A lot of companies seem to have forgotten about the ones that been there and work hard.
Eric Shine: Exactly! I was wondering that, too. Maybe that's why employees aren't going back. They don't wanna be laid off again. If companies can pay more NOW, they could've done it BEFORE THE PANDEMIC. It shouldn't have taken unemployment and stimulus checks to do it.
I live in a small town in Kansas (5,000 folks) and locally retail stores and restaurants are having a tough time finding workers. It's either teenagers on summer break who work but goof off at every opportunity or businesses having to close early due to staffing problems. Imagine Burger King closing early nightly or KFC having no chicken because there is no one to make it on a nightly basis. Covid here didn't have a huge effect because we avoided much of what plagued the KC metro area (40 miles to the suburbs from here) due to measures the governor took requiring masks early on and the lack of a huge population influx here. Now we sit on the edge of a surge in those areas (and Missouri 30 miles east of here experiencing a wave of new cases) and I think people are afraid to work with the public. There is that "were patriots and we aren't wearing masks or taking precautions" movement going on here so if you work with the masses you have to risk your life now as masks are not required and many act like there is no pandemic. All it takes I, one person, to start spreading the virus and there will be a reality no one really wants. But until then (and hopefully it never happens) businesses will find it hard to stay staffed. Politics over lives. I don't care what party people support. We only get one life. Don't waste it for a political statement.
I really like your coverage of employment situation in your area. I agree that politics shouldn’t interfere with public health mandates. I feel betrayed by this country and my fellow countrymen,. Employers want people to risk developing lifelong disabilities or death and they aren’t paying a living wage. When you work 40hrs a week and can’t afford the basics it makes it seem pointless.
You’re correct that young people are super lazy and bad workers. You’re incorrect overstating the danger of covid. The virus has been spreading. It’s not that serious and if it were we’d ALL be dead
I worked at a place that used a "Round up" bonus. If you brought someone into the company, you got the bonus. The place I retired from had a sign on bonus and I did not even know it until they paid me three months after I was hired. It does bring in some good people, and the company has time to weed out the losers.
If I needed a job I would be willing to work pretty much anywhere...But I would need to be on the verge of becoming homeless before I would take a job in food services or retail or the hotel industries...and even then it would be a tough decision.
More than one-time incentive, permanent increase of wage is a real deal-breaker. PERIOD. When we work for somebody, we endure stress, then it costs something. For somebody, just relying on unemployment benefit is same as working for 120% wage of the that benefit.
$500 to sign at McD, and go back to slave work and wages. 10% raise for a waitress, earning $2.65 an hour, is 26 cents an hour raise. Some restaurants ask waitresses to wash floors and dishes at $2.65. Advice to new restaurant workers, never sign an arbitration agreement, if you sign you can't pursue them for anything, be very worried about businesses who ask to sign those papers, just do a little research on Chipotle wage theft.
I also have a question for the WSJ. What impact are the Trump policies on immigration are having on today's workforce? A lot of immigrants left or were deported from the country. They used to pick the food we put on our tables and do those jobs in the hospitality industry. Now that they're gone, it looks like American citizens will not do those jobs for a meager wage, right?
Labor shortage is actually what the working class NEEDS. The more employers compete for labor, the better things gets for workers. I say hold out even longer, if you started a small business during the pandemic, keep going! All the small businesses we lost during the pandemic means we probably lost a ton of jobs. If you can scale back your lifestyle while you look for work that you find really satisfying, then you should. Or maybe you underwent new training and now you're more qualified for higher skilled, better paying work, those are great things.
What about those of us who have never stopped working? My work load increased by 2000% in 2020 and that hasn't changed so here we stand over worked and burnt out from 2020 ready for this shift to end...
Remember, this is mostly the result of unemployment insurance and reduced immigration from the pandemic. Keeping immigration low helps workers by reducing supply!
Contract of employment, pay in lieu of notice. get rid of "At Will".. payed vacation for part time employment, larger health care contribution, paid sick days, move a larger percentage of profit into wage reimbursement instead of all of it to shareholders, profit sharing, meaningful wage raises ...basically returning all the things to workers they used to have but have been taken away by bean counters who have been nickeling and diming the work force to death for the past 20 years
Most of these companies don't want to pay you more. They also don't want to bother to train people in their niche industries or obscure applications and programs. I think the reluctance and unwillingness of companies to train people is the number one issue here. They expect people to be born knowing.
Gimmicks dont pay bills. When companies are paying to have crisis lines or to have some other type of incentive. They really should just consider if that person can afford to live in the market. They already know the answer. We just want to be paid for our work.
I don't care what all these studies and all this nonsence data shows. If minimum-wage workers were making about the same on extended unemployment benefits, not a single one would rather choose to work 40 hours/week, especially knowing that once they are ready to go back to work any place will hire them immediately.
Even when this sounds as a worker's revolution. I believe it might get ugly for low skill jobs since those are the ones typically competing with automation and AI, which are getting better and cheaper every day. Workers should be upgrading their skills to be harder to replace.
Our landlord asked us to move, stating she needs to raise the rent and knows we won't be able to afford it. Haven't been late in rent whole pandemic, lost jobs found new ones. Most people are lazy asf
Nope. They'll take the sign on bonus, work for the allotted time required to get it and move onto another job. Instead of credit card churning, they're job hopping.
They ARE long overdue for increasing wages.
@LaMelo Ball is that all you gonna take about? No wages increases still bring inflation but once people talk about wage growth you people just start shouting inflation as if it wasn’t happening before.
If you increase wages, the prices will increase too
they still dont' want to increase wage, most only offer once only sign up bonus.
Wage stagnation since the 1970s. Minimum wage should be $26hr . People won’t work if they cannot afford a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. Don’t be fooled. Covid didn’t cause this but provided an opportunity to pay attention.
We are STILL in a pandemic.
@@1966bluemax yeah but prices go up every year too but the minimum wage doesn’t
Been out of work for a while, applied for one of these low paying entry level jobs, they told me i'm over qualified, wouldn't be happy there and good luck. Don't tell me that there's a worker shortage! There's a shortage of employers who want to give workers a living wage.
Exactly I've heard that same lie before as well. Just don't get discouraged. You'll find something better eventually. Stay the course.
What kind of job specifically?
I’m sorry to hear that man. Good luck. You’ll get a good job don’t get discouraged
There is more to it than that. It has to do with the fact that if they don't hire people but show they are actively looking for someone they get benefits from the government for it
You could also pay people a liveable wage in general
Nah, they'll just give them a free Big Gulp incentive.
@@fb767 64oz or I'm leaving
What's a livable wage.
I'm from the silicon valley, minimum wage is almost $16 an hour, and people still can't live on, because it causes inflation in our area (I'm not just saying that out of fear, everyone in the area knows it's a fact).
@@andrewsutherland133 tax the rich they pay zero income tax
@@andrewsutherland133 socialize healthcare and Housing
this shows just how essential low income jobs are for the US economy and how quickly things can change, when those jobs are vacant. dont let anybody tell you, that your job isnt needed or is not good enough.
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Some jobs will be obsolete in the future.
Facts.
Big corpo execs : no one is irreplaceable
Average worker: ok let’s see if you can find anyone if no one is coming...
They need to increase wages. Free meal and one time bonus of $200 is a joke lol
Yeah 200 is a pretty low amount
@@Patrick3183 no amount is worth the fact you're making $9/hr
if you get 15$ an hour 400$ is equivalent of the 200h getting 17$. If working 8 hours a day its basically means a month of elevated wage. (400$ + 15$/h = 25days of 17$/h)
No they don’t. Just need more cheap imported labor. You think they are only good to work the farm fields picking vegetables? No, they can do anything. You want it like this. Lots of poor afghans coming. You love it.
@@JR-yu5tf young person here:
I’m not getting ANY government aid, I’m just going into debt, idgaf because it’s better than risking my long-term health to slave away for non-living-wages. We can hold out longer than you, you need us employees more than we need you employers :) cut aid all you want, it doesn’t matter to me :P if some employers don’t want to offer living wages, then their business will die, because they aren’t gonna be able to compete with employers that do offer a living wage :)
I guess you'll just have to... Increase wages more and give benefits like healthcare
It should be the law
@@beefcleavebeefcleave6449 like that's going to happen
@@v____l if that's what it's worth then so be it
Kapitalist just want more cheap labor.
So congress created 20 work visa categories, only one work visa pays federal income tax. The other 19 visa categories pay no federal income or social security tax.
@@v____l employers paying my healthcare for $10 nuggets. That’s a dub
Previously companies took employees for granted... Now thy are getting the same treatment by employees and thy cry foul.. 🤗🤗
They'll just call Americans lazy and tell congress to bring in immigrants to take those jobs. Then, when unemployment benefits run out, those people won't be able to get those jobs anymore.
Did you watch the video? Not sure where the cry foul part was
Those people asking 'did you even watch the video', this video leaves out anything unflattering to the big corporations
@@shadoninja from current events
Part of the issue is the increased cost of living. It may take the average person 10-15 working days out of the month just to cover housing.
That shouldn't be the case on a correctly organized budget. That means more than half your pay is going towards housing and you can't afford the house you're living in and need to move.
What world are you living in? Most people need to work 7 days a week to fall short.
That's the point! Housing shouldn't take half your pay, but it does because there are not affordable options. You can't move to a place that more appropriately fits your budget when such a place doesn't exist.
@@coleburton3 right if it does must be hours away from your job
Funny how they only ask this question when it comes to poor people. For CEOs and other executives, incentives are considered a right
I mean they are tougher jobs an way more stressful
And yet everyone thinks having several kids is a right instead of a privilege, and then the poor complain that they can't both work and afford child care.
@@icebreaker9995 Irrelevant. Because if you don't have the people that do the actual work of the business, you don't have a business.
@@icebreaker9995 Most large corps are decentralized enough to function without direction from chief execs, but good luck running a Walmart if your stockers won't work for peanuts.
Some of these incentives that Omni hotel offered should have been standard even before the pandemic. Really shows what’s wrong with these companies
This. I worked in HR for a major grocery chain and we had a major shortage of meat cutters. Our HR department was so desperate for meat cutters they tried to hire retirees. What was really galling was that HR complained about the retirees not wanting to work more hours! When I asked our HR manager if they had a training program to train new meat cutters within he didn't say anything! The major issue with American companies is that they don't want to spend any money on training people. They expect to hire people knowing things already.
“ They expect to hire people knowing things already” sadly true. Even for a job such as an librarian or archivist.
If employers offered daycare, they'd get more people off unemployment.
Do you want Walmart raising your children?
@@benjamindover4337 I think Financial means that companies partner with local daycares and cover that charge for their employees
My wife and I worked opposite shifts to avoid daycare and only needed one car. It can be done
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They wouldn’t be Walmart employees at the daycare fool. It would be partnerships with daycare. Lots of companies do that. 🤦🏻♂️
@@davidheinzmann4403 My wife and I did the same for years. One car as well. Saved our money and didn’t have to trust strangers with our children.
Gone are the days when employers could treat you as disposable during an interview process. They could ignore you, ghost you, and they didn’t have to be on THEIR best behavior
Not true. Got ghosted just a few weeks ago. Got a different job instead.
Yeah because the new generation ghosted them back by taking advantage of the at will employment
In the long-term, _a living wage_ would suffice - the hiring incentives are a cherry on top.
For any job under 15 an hour, a starting bonus is a cherry on top of a cow pie. We need long term change in the labor market, no more poverty wages
The incentives they offer should have been standard even before
Oh so y’all not going to mention that employee pay was at an all time low as well as job satisfaction and these are two huge factors as to why people are not returning to work
That’s likely a factor in why they’re not returning to their OLD job. Remember, people need to be actively seeking work to qualify for unemployment.
This was said in the first 55 seconds of the video.
@@V21bh no sir they mention “Covid concerns, child care, and unemployment” in fact they never mention job satisfaction and briefly mention low wages.
What’s not mentioned is that the pandemic forced a lot of folks to start their own business, as they should.
Hopefully people start making worker coops. They’re far more stable and they treat workers far better than traditional firms.
Except big businesses will continue eating up small businesses until government realize they should help small local businesses rather than tax breaks for mega corporations
Yes it is for helping Azure cloud computing services to take over the world
@@thedemoguy1628 or AWS
@@organizedchaos4559 hey, if you sell off your business to a corporation, you’re that much closer to retiring young
Just raise wages instead of a one time boost.
Raising wages is more expensive than offering leftover food or $500 sign up bonuses (most of the time).
"Employers are trying to make sure they can take advantage . . ." sounds about right.
You forgot to mention the sheer number of people who have died, and have been completely removed from the workforce, forever.
@Jeff Bruce also I don’t personally believe that the vax causes autism and I agree that those people should be educated on what vaccines typically contain (I’m not a Dr so I don’t really know either lol). But I’m waiting until the FDA is able to approve the vaccine for safe use before I get it myself. Within the first three days of administering the vaccine in January, around 6,000 Americans lost their lives and 11,000 Europeans lost theirs. That statistic is scary enough for me not to want the vaccine at this current moment. My friends 72 year old mother received the vaccine in the beginning of June, and she’s still in the ICU fighting for her life. She has no previous health issues and was previously full of vil and vigor, but not we’re all just hoping that she can leave the hospital one last time before she inevitably passes. These are sad times that we live in no doubt.
now, not “not”*
Houses by me start at 400K, to afford that you need to make at least $30/hr and to not be house poor you need two incomes at that. $15/hr or free food is a joke idk why the media keeps pushing for $15/hr
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If companies paid livable wages more would eagerly work.
Well, I just found out yesterday that two of my local fast-food restaurants can't fill the night shift. They're paying $15.5 in one and $18.5 in another one. If those employees were to work 40 hrs/week, their net income would not and does not allow them to live alone (say you're a young single person w/o children) in an apartment.
Rents in Southern California are pretty high, a 1BR goes between, $2000 - $2200, that's just a basic apt., not a luxury one with all the amenities. Then, you start adding all your expenses in addition to rent: utilities, cable, phone, groceries, eating out, gas, car insurance, parking, parking tickets, car maintenance, medicines, health insurance, clothing, laundry (bc you don't have your own washer and dryer), fees from the places that cash your cks bc you don't have a cking and savings acct., credit card fees, etc.
They have to work at least 3 jobs to make ends meet and there is no money for vacation or savings. Now imagine all those young workers that have one or more kids and have to pay for childcare. There's no way.
Hourly wages have been stagnant since the 1970s while the wealthy keep getting wealthier. In Southern California, minimum wage workers would have to make $23/hr, just to make ends meet, probably more. And, that is not to live in luxury like all those shows that you see on HGTV. It is tough out there, and if you add the fears that still exist about the pandemic, the multiple variants, and the people who refuse to get vaccinated, it is not looking good.
There are 1 bed rooms that cost 1.5k
Which is why this fast food business model will fail. People won't pay much more to eat at these places.
Studies show there is not one county in the US where a person working minimum wage can rent a two bedroom apartment.
Older folks staying in workforce longer
Good middle income jobs were shipped overseas by American capitalists to increase profits by paying slave wages in developing countries. They didn’t care what it would do here. Me me me. There are a ton of low wage jobs. People who are highly educated are competing for these jobs and have been . This isn’t the 50s when there were strong unions, social safety net. Now people work multiple jobs, both adults work, still cannot afford the lifestyle our parents and grandparents enjoyed. So give it a rest.
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 Or maybe the executives making millions every year could take a pay decrease to keep their prices down.
Inflation has severely reduced the purchasing power of labor, new workers rightly demand higher pay.
It's very interesting watching Miss Rothschild saying they'd do anything to get people in except paying people a better living wage. Notice this, her title is a Chief Human Resources Officer. The average salary in the USA for one of those goes for $253k a year. I don't know what her precise salary is but it's definitely not that far off from that number if not greater. Meanwhile, the average salary for someone who works at Front Desk or as an Attendant makes $23.5k in comparison. If you don't see the glaring obvious disproportional pay here because this company does over supposedly $2 billion then something is wrong with you. All the cash flow and profit are primarily going to the shareholders and business owner of the company meanwhile the people who are making Omni Hotels & Resorts a functioning profitable business are being paid scraps. This MUST change if you want to survive. Don't blame the unemployment benefits or lack of child care, blame the greed and mishandling of money at the top to not be able to pay people appropriately.
And let’s not forget removing the barriers to entry. She talked about having employees come for two rounds and Omni being able take their time. Many of “low skill / low wage” workers don’t have access to cars or can afford multiple days off (lack of PTO) to interview. You would expect the chief HR to know how to recruit and having an efficient hiring practices even in the best of times.
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Yes. Greedy corporations
Signing bonus is fake.
The bonus is paid out over many months so effectively its just a few dollars per pay period.
Exactly. They think they’re so slick 🙄
Wages need to rise 50% to keep up with inflation and rising cost of living.
That makes too much sense though. Underrated comment.
How can small businesses afford these wage hikes?
@@Patrick3183 they don’t. As simple as that. If you can’t afford to pay your workers a livable wage then what’s the difference between you and a slave owner, eh?
@@Patrick3183 small businesses are a joke, look around almost everything is consolidated. What’s the last time you took a small business airline to a different city? Or the last time you went to a small business to get your prescription glasses? Or a small business to buy your laptop? This small business fallacy is stupid.
So 30 an hour?
I wonder which was more expensive. Keeping the original employees on staff throughout the pandemic? Or the costs from incentives/trainings/lost business from being understaffed.
Who wants to work in a restaurant or dealing with the public in 2021 when Karen, her husband, Kai'Ren (Karen with melanin) and everybody with smart phones are ready to record you and post you on social media?
Over nothing 🤣
That’s why I’m like F my retail job.
@@Dodbanna at 2am?? 😭🤣🤣
Take yo miserable a$$ to 💤 bed
@@bluevillsplash I’m an American, not 2am here…?
same with flight attendant jobs....this used to be my dream....now it just seems like another dull customer service job that will suck out your soul
Not once did they try paying people a better permanent wage. That $1,500 they were offering is nice but that only works out to approximately $0.73 an hour for only one year, ridiculous! Just pay people a living wage.
UBI is a good thing
Increase minimum to liveable wage, include retirement plan and childcare.
And if the employee doesn’t need childcare, *pay them* those funds so they still gain the benefit!
Why should I pay for your children?
@@Patrick3183 Because you want a qualified & desirable workforce, genius.
@@Patrick3183 you’re free to pay 5 to 10 k for your own funeral then.
Double all wages. Stop disrespecting the work force with perpetual poverty wages.
Even skilled labor jobs are underpaid. We’re working harder than ever and we only see diminishing returns due to cost of living reaching ridiculous levels.
Pay up. Hoarding money won’t work forever. Money and wealth need to stay in the consumer economy and not tied up in assets.
Since the hospitality and tourism industry are labor partly by seasonal and international workers, it's likely that most potential workers have exited the country
This would be a good time to adopt some alternative forms of worker education/training and certifications through apprenticeships combine with school education which we know is working really well in some European countries. You don´t only get good staff, but you bind the workers to you. While the worker becomes qualified and eligible for good pay.
Underrated comment. It makes too much sense though. Corporations in America would rather just whine to our politicians. Hence why 20 States have cut unemployment benefits much needed bonus early. Ironically, they act as if the costs of goods and services didn't increase in 2020.
Capitalism at it's best quick to hire, quick to fire....
My ex worked in the restaurant industry and was a server. There would be days where she would make five bucks in an afternoon 4 hour shift. Five fuqing bucks...ridiculous! Slow weekdays between lunch and dinner. I don't blame anyone that works and earns tips for a living to stay at home and use any benefits to the maximum extent.
So many people are making these claims if workers were treated better, they would join. They don't understand that the economics of this mess is horrible.
That’s exactly the problem. We’re overqualified for jobs that want to pay us nothing. If we can, we’re going to try and find better jobs. The stimulus checks are giving us that chance. Either businesses get with the workers, or they can ask for government intervention (which they nearly always do).
@@user-id9bn1ic9v Companies should try and give better wages for workers if they are worth it! No doubt. But when someone is being paid for attending the interview, they are not giving it to you because you are overskilled, it's because the labor market is not looking for jobs due to high unemployment benefits remaining in place.
@@omgaddad5596 this isn’t a problem that paying a fair and livable wage wouldn’t fix.
@@user-id9bn1ic9v While a higher wage would be great, many businesses would be unable to pay that high of a salary, due to the fact that the economy is only now just recovering, and they still have to compete with the government's extremely high unemployment benefits.
@@omgaddad5596 No problem with that, but they have to make the profit and the salaries of the management public for the net 5 years, including the bonuses.
hopefully, this means higher pay for those who need it more
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Why don’t they… well I don’t know… pay them a living wage?
In trucking sign on bonuses are usually scams they come with a lot of loopholes and your not paid enough for staying out on the road for weeks at a time with little time off not even worth having a home when your only showing up to dust wash and all your groceries are left rotting
At least the lady from Omni seems to get it and is willing to make adjustments
This is honestly the best thing to happen in the work place for low wage earners. I work in tech and they constantly compete for talent and the reason I have friends getting 15 to 20k pay bumps switching jobs is because these companies have to compete for talent. If that means an extra 3 - 5 bucks an hour in these places then good... I hope it continues.
I also have this weird suspicion that a lot of people are like me and picked up trades, started companies, and just moved to alternative ways to make money. Prepandemic I was driving for Uber. I started a coding bootcamp prior to the pandemic and now post pandemic I make $80,000 as an Associate Software Engineer. I hope anyways... imagine wasting that down time just to return back to what you were previously doing. Thats wasted opportunity.
A return to stay at home parenting is actually a good thing, and one of the silver linings of the pandemic
I have a pretty good paying job and maybe I shouldn't say this and that but honestly people are finally starting to wake up. Companies are the ones that decide on pumping up prices on goods and services.. not us, then they want to pay with nickels and dimes. People are just getting sick of watching millionaires billionaires not paying their taxes while we have to do all the work.
Only people who actively look for job are counted as unemployed. So for States with generous unemployment benefits these people who are comfortable with unemployment benefits hence not looking for jobs are simply not counted. Therefore the lower unemployment rate. Economics 101
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The fact is as an American living in the United States the most powerful and wealthy nation on the planet. I'm entitled to that wealth. Our labor is what made America Great. We deserve Subsides Childcare, We Deserve Universal Healthcare no one should be sick with our modern technology it's greedy and disgusting behavior. No American should be living in poverty, we need to cancel billionaires. No one should be a billionaire no one earns or deserves that much money, you only get that money from stealing if from your employees. We need a wealth tax to fund the things Americans Deserve.
Now the big thing is bonuses for new hires? That’s fine and all but what about the people who are already working there and been for months years? Do they get a bonus? When the lock down happen I didn’t get time off. I’m an auto mechanic and my shop is offering hiring bonuses and current techs are asking our managers where is our bonus. A lot of companies seem to have forgotten about the ones that been there and work hard.
those companies should've kept their employees on payroll during the pandemic instead of laying them off and then trying to rehire them back
Eric Shine: Exactly! I was wondering that, too. Maybe that's why employees aren't going back. They don't wanna be laid off again. If companies can pay more NOW, they could've done it BEFORE THE PANDEMIC. It shouldn't have taken unemployment and stimulus checks to do it.
I live in a small town in Kansas (5,000 folks) and locally retail stores and restaurants are having a tough time finding workers. It's either teenagers on summer break who work but goof off at every opportunity or businesses having to close early due to staffing problems. Imagine Burger King closing early nightly or KFC having no chicken because there is no one to make it on a nightly basis. Covid here didn't have a huge effect because we avoided much of what plagued the KC metro area (40 miles to the suburbs from here) due to measures the governor took requiring masks early on and the lack of a huge population influx here. Now we sit on the edge of a surge in those areas (and Missouri 30 miles east of here experiencing a wave of new cases) and I think people are afraid to work with the public. There is that "were patriots and we aren't wearing masks or taking precautions" movement going on here so if you work with the masses you have to risk your life now as masks are not required and many act like there is no pandemic. All it takes I, one person, to start spreading the virus and there will be a reality no one really wants. But until then (and hopefully it never happens) businesses will find it hard to stay staffed. Politics over lives. I don't care what party people support. We only get one life. Don't waste it for a political statement.
I really like your coverage of employment situation in your area. I agree that politics shouldn’t interfere with public health mandates. I feel betrayed by this country and my fellow countrymen,.
Employers want people to risk developing lifelong disabilities or death and they aren’t paying a living wage. When you work 40hrs a week and can’t afford the basics it makes it seem pointless.
You’re correct that young people are super lazy and bad workers. You’re incorrect overstating the danger of covid. The virus has been spreading. It’s not that serious and if it were we’d ALL be dead
I worked at a place that used a "Round up" bonus. If you brought someone into the company, you got the bonus. The place I retired from had a sign on bonus and I did not even know it until they paid me three months after I was hired. It does bring in some good people, and the company has time to weed out the losers.
If I needed a job I would be willing to work pretty much anywhere...But I would need to be on the verge of becoming homeless before I would take a job in food services or retail or the hotel industries...and even then it would be a tough decision.
Employers were cocky in beginning of the pandemic. I know my old employer told us that either we do the job or they find someone to do it
Just pay us more jfc we can't work like this to barely afford to live
As an employee this is music to my ears
Thats how it should be ....employees should get to choose
Minimum wage needs to always go up according to inflation.
Indeed that's why so many are saying f it.
Increased spending power also raises inflation.. which makes hikes useless
Capitalism needs more than a band-aid.
"find new ways to skin this cat" 😺🔥 HR metaphors are the best.
It used to be that employers could afford to be picky, now would-be employees can afford to be picky.
What if they... raised the wages?
Universal healthcare and universal daycare
UBI!
More than one-time incentive, permanent increase of wage is a real deal-breaker. PERIOD.
When we work for somebody, we endure stress, then it costs something. For somebody, just relying on unemployment benefit is same as working for 120% wage of the that benefit.
$500 to sign at McD, and go back to slave work and wages. 10% raise for a waitress, earning $2.65 an hour, is 26 cents an hour raise. Some restaurants ask waitresses to wash floors and dishes at $2.65. Advice to new restaurant workers, never sign an arbitration agreement, if you sign you can't pursue them for anything, be very worried about businesses who ask to sign those papers, just do a little research on Chipotle wage theft.
I also have a question for the WSJ. What impact are the Trump policies on immigration are having on today's workforce? A lot of immigrants left or were deported from the country. They used to pick the food we put on our tables and do those jobs in the hospitality industry. Now that they're gone, it looks like American citizens will not do those jobs for a meager wage, right?
Now those companies will be forced to pay _Americans_ a much better wage!
A lot like 100?
Labor shortage is actually what the working class NEEDS. The more employers compete for labor, the better things gets for workers. I say hold out even longer, if you started a small business during the pandemic, keep going! All the small businesses we lost during the pandemic means we probably lost a ton of jobs. If you can scale back your lifestyle while you look for work that you find really satisfying, then you should. Or maybe you underwent new training and now you're more qualified for higher skilled, better paying work, those are great things.
Every worker deserves at least $50 an hour. It’s about quality of life. That’s a human right, people
Greedy employers... pay them livable wages..
Pay me more and you'll see me at work more, simple as that.
take your power back people!
they have to pay more.
What about those of us who have never stopped working? My work load increased by 2000% in 2020 and that hasn't changed so here we stand over worked and burnt out from 2020 ready for this shift to end...
then maybe you need a union to improve your lot instead of hoping other people suffer as much as you...
This will be a new world from here onwards. People will demand right pay and right work conditions. Its good.
Remember, this is mostly the result of unemployment insurance and reduced immigration from the pandemic. Keeping immigration low helps workers by reducing supply!
Employers are competing for workers this time because employees started to use the at-will against them. CEO's did not enjoy this
Apply like 5 jobs, non of them calls back x-x
Contract of employment, pay in lieu of notice. get rid of "At Will".. payed vacation for part time employment, larger health care contribution, paid sick days, move a larger percentage of profit into wage reimbursement instead of all of it to shareholders, profit sharing, meaningful wage raises ...basically returning all the things to workers they used to have but have been taken away by bean counters who have been nickeling and diming the work force to death for the past 20 years
“Sign on bonus” is the biggest joke. Absolutely hilarious.
Good to see a little extra going to the poorest workers.
WSJ - Get your reporters a decent microphone! Seriously, this not the first of your videos I’ve watched where the reporter was hard to understand.
HR hasnt approved these expences so
Inflation and taxes practically made 11$ 6$, 9.68$ after 12% tax then 20% inflations
Most of these companies don't want to pay you more. They also don't want to bother to train people in their niche industries or obscure applications and programs. I think the reluctance and unwillingness of companies to train people is the number one issue here. They expect people to be born knowing.
Gimmicks dont pay bills. When companies are paying to have crisis lines or to have some other type of incentive. They really should just consider if that person can afford to live in the market. They already know the answer. We just want to be paid for our work.
I don't care what all these studies and all this nonsence data shows. If minimum-wage workers were making about the same on extended unemployment benefits, not a single one would rather choose to work 40 hours/week, especially knowing that once they are ready to go back to work any place will hire them immediately.
I am curious what type of food can you buy for $500 in New York?
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Even when this sounds as a worker's revolution. I believe it might get ugly for low skill jobs since those are the ones typically competing with automation and AI, which are getting better and cheaper every day.
Workers should be upgrading their skills to be harder to replace.
Notice the word career, or retire, wasn't used once. Lots of "workforce" though.
sounds like dating when you've reached certain age.
Wait you get bonuses in dating?
Simple supply/demand when the demand is too high and supply is even higher
Our landlord asked us to move, stating she needs to raise the rent and knows we won't be able to afford it. Haven't been late in rent whole pandemic, lost jobs found new ones. Most people are lazy asf
Thank you for the video.
Tell me about executive compensation?
how about the value of $$$ instead???
eliminate min wage first ...
Bonus tip, hire more remote outside the States.
Living wages... Companies are going to have to stop funneling all of the wealth to the top and pay people their actual worth
These multibillion dollar companies just need to pay their workers better and treat people with dignity.
Nope. They'll take the sign on bonus, work for the allotted time required to get it and move onto another job. Instead of credit card churning, they're job hopping.
sounds good, little guy wins for once
I applied to 100+ positions last year.
Have 2 business degrees
2 interviews
No job offers.
That’s strange cause the high school kids at my job, have a job. And they’re in high school
@@Dodbanna I'm just asking for around $55-$65k to be able to afford to live in Southern California. Applied all over Riverside and Los Angeles
@@Striker50_ you didn’t do any internships, or part time work during college? Or just get part time job and work up to a management role
@@Striker50_ why so low if you have 2 degrees? And in cali
@@Dodbanna I started 2 businesses in College and studied abroad instead of an internship
We need to see high wages for the lowest owners!! Like come on people, this is how we keep people around.
Empoye: Mr Boss your car is awsome!
Boss: if you work real hard next year ill buy a better one next year
You have to pay in excess of $18/hr. If you pay $20/hr you will be flooded with job seeker applicants.
Livable wage is now $27/Hour in 2/3rds of states and as high as $40/Hour in major cities! $20/Hour is a high school wage!