Mr. Cai, who lives in Alhambra and has a Chinese fast food restaurant in Glendale for more than 10 years, is worried because he can’t recruit employees recently.
“We only have three people left in the store now, and it’s really hard to hire people.” Mr. Cai complained, “We’ve been hiring employees, but the people who come to apply make all kinds of conditions, they ask for very high salaries and they want to be paid in cash.” Mr. Cai said staff salaries have been increasing, but how can not find people, “If this continues, we have no way to survive, I just want to find people to replace the work shifts now.”
According to Mr. Cai, his friend has a big restaurant in China Town (China Town), there used to be eight people in the kitchen, but now there is only one person left, seven people have left at once, “The boss can only help himself in the kitchen, he can hardly hold on, the staff are looking for reasons to leave one by one.”
Mr. Cai believes that the main reason why employees keep leaving is that the government has provided long-term generous unemployment benefits. “The government is really killing us by giving out unemployment benefits like this, employees don’t want to work and would rather go home and sit and collect unemployment benefits, or they threaten us with all kinds of conditions, and if they don’t meet the requirements, they won’t do it.”
Mr. Cai says many employees are demanding cash payments, “so they can collect unemployment while getting a cash paycheck.” But Cai says he won’t accede to these unreasonable demands, because on the one hand he can’t afford to pay cash, and on the other hand he doesn’t want to indulge them, and he feels they will get more aggressive if this goes on. “Those who have been receiving unemployment benefits at home for a long time have taken control of us, and coupled with the fact that every restaurant is now in desperate need of hiring, they have repeatedly put forward many excessive conditions that make it impossible for the owners to survive.”
Mr. Tsai noted that one day it occurred to him that he might as well close the restaurant for a day, “I could use less labor by taking a day off, and if all the small restaurants in Los Angeles would take a day off a week like I do, maybe staffing wouldn’t be so tight, and the accountant told me it would be tax deductible.” That day, Mr. Tsai said he felt a great sense of relief, which he hadn’t felt in a long time, because he was worried about finding people every day.
At the same time, Mr. Choi mentioned that many task workers in the restaurant and renovation industry are now switching to growing marijuana because the income is higher. “They told me that even if they are caught by the police, they are not afraid, they will only get a warning and will not go to jail.”
Pasadena (Pasadena) a restaurant waiter Ms. Lin said that their colleagues have also recently been negotiating with the boss, asking for a pay raise, “colleagues want to pull us together to strike to threaten the boss, she felt that the boss applied for government subsidies, get a lot of money, but did not share this part of the benefits to employees, colleagues feel unfair. ” Ms. Lin confessed that she is already satisfied with her current salary, which is much higher than before, but there are always people who feel it is unfair.
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