Folsom CA is asking retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students to work 20 hours a week at

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

struggling businesses to help ease a labor crunch, a report says

A city in northern California is calling on local retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students to go to work and help ease the labor crunch, CBS Sacramento reported.

The vice mayor of Folsom city has partnered with the local chamber of commerce to launch a new campaign encouraging these groups to work 20 hour weeks for six months at local businesses that are struggling the most to find workers, such as stores and restaurants, according to the report.

"Our hope is to bridge this gap," Joe Gagliardi, CEO of The Folsom Chamber of Commerce, told CBS Sacramento. "It's really a short-term solution where people who have time and are committed to the community want to help. We are not talking about people that are working for free, we are talking about people who have time on their hands that they might be able to allocate that to some of our businesses," he said.

Cities and states across the US are increasingly looking at unconventional ways to resolve a labor shortage that is crippling businesses across the country. The retail and restaurant sectors have been particularly hard hit as workers - put off by low pay, long hours, and rude customers - ditch their jobs to pursue other careers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-city-asking-retirees-stay-103211436.html

[marble falls]

1. Try paying a living wage.

[rurallib]

11. And if you need to borrow money to pay decent wages

that is where the local bank's commitment should come in.

Sorry but free or very low wages is part of what got you in this mess

[marble falls]

13. I just have had no success from depending on promises of rising tides floating all ships ...

... coming from the mouths of people who for the most part did everything they could to keep wages minimal and spend millions in attempts to defeat the ACA. They didn't treat people right when things went their way, why should I trust them to treat me right in the bad - and economics actually show a strong and growing economy.

I agree: let them borrow on equity or take advantage of governmental programs to protect wage earners.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Ask any stay-at-home parent

How much free time they have on their hands. This is insulting.

[Bluethroughu]

3. Got that right. If they want an employee PAY THEM MORE!

Welcome to capitalism!
They can't have it both ways, market conditions demand higher wages or do the work yourself.

[abqtommy]

5. +100 Well said... We don't have a labor crunch, we have a wages crunch! nt

[Deuxcents]

4. The issue of low pay

And the lack of immigration, which contributes tremendously to the work force , is the result of the opposition ‘s near sided policies, fears and prejudice. Imo

[musette_sf]

6. This sounds like Chapter 2 of tone-deaf Elaine Chao's

"patriotic duty" BS exhorting the serfs to work sh!t jobs at sh!t wages.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/9/2063207/-Elaine-Chao-tells-workers-it-is-their-patriotic-duty-to-help-the-economy-and-take-a-job

[sheshe2]

7. You already kicked us oldsters out.

You made us retirees and now you want us back? FU.

[quaint]

12. +++

[Sherman A1]

14. Precisely

I was run out the door, of the grocery chain I worked for by the company hatchet man who's mission was to rid them of us older higher rate types. Now they are begging any and all of us to return to help them out through the holidays. They are pulling their office personnel and their store re-set crews to stock, staff the checkouts and service counters in sort of a "press gang" mode of operation

[sheshe2]

16. Yup.

They wanted the youngsters in at low wages, now they want us back for low wages. I doubt many will have any COVID protections in place. Scaroo them.

[rzemanfl]

8. The Black Plague had a similar effect on the relationship between serfs and their overlords.

You can look it up, I am old and my degrees are from a state that condones murder by out of state teenagers.

[DBoon]

9. After abusing their employees for 40 years

they now want to beg retirees to once again work?

Sorry, they lost any semblance of loyalty long ago.

You treat people like a cost, cut benefits, have periodic layoffs to boost earnings, outsource and offshore, you then have no business trying to appeal to any loyalty

[Sherman A1]

15. +1000

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. I heard a saying long ago

It says something of the lines like : "a merchant is not loyal to the state ,to ideals or anything else but profits."