'It's a job-seekers market:' How businesses are competing during labor shortage

18 Jun 2021


News, Wisconsin

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- As we get to the other side of the pandemic, businesses are reopening and scrambling to hire people. However a worker shortage in Wisconsin is making that tough.

In April 2020 the unemployment rate was 14.1 percent, but by April of this year it was down to 3.9 percent. So, businesses are trying to figure out how to recruit workers so they can fully reopen.

"We're getting really geared up to go into summer selling where we see a lot of cookouts, celebrations are coming back," said Emilie Williamson, community affairs manager for Roundy's Supermarkets.

Roundy's Supermarkets have more than 900 jobs open at their stores across Wisconsin, and more than 100 in their distribution center. Filling those jobs right now isn't easy.

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