Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?

Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by dazc on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:12AM (#28018805)

One of the UK employers currently moaning about a lack of workers had a policy of only employing people for 16 hours a week since this was the optimum hours a person could work whilst still receiving tax credits and housing benefit.

Around 10 years ago I was in the labour market willing to do pretty much anything and these kinds of jobs accounted for most of what was available.

Since I wasn't 'on benefits' I was at the other end of the equation. What I really wanted was a chance to work my way out of financial trouble - these kind of jobs only offered the opposite of this.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by gwright on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:33PM (#28019571)

This is a great example of perversive incentives driven by ill-conceived benefit rules.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by f0xytr0xy on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:40PM (#28020605)

In some states in the USA a lot of service jobs will cap your work at 31 hours, to get around their own corporate policies of giving benefits to anyone who worked 32 hours or more.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by adaml_623 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @04:39PM (#28021378)

And any company that has done this might see it coming back and biting them even though they would never admit that they brought it on themselves

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by f0xytr0xy on Saturday July 31, 2021 @05:05PM (#28021549)

Probably not. USA is a capitalist-first, worker-5th nation.

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