GM struggles to hire hundreds of temps; union leader says drop drug test
GM struggles to hire temps to keep the assembly lines moving, prompting a local union leader to call for no more pot testing and higher starting pay.
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the staffing agency has been struggling to hire for many months even though the jobs pay $14.50 to $17 an hour, said Gail Smith, staffing manager at Snelling Staffing.
Often 80% to 90% of applicants scheduled for interviews do not show up, Smith said. Last week, they had 17 people scheduled and no one came. Before the pandemic hit, prompting a boost in unemployment benefits, Smith said she'd get 20 to 30 resumes a week. Now she gets one or two.
When Smith calls to ask people why they did not show up to a job interview, she said, "They are telling us they’re making an average of $16.05 an hour on unemployment, so why would they work for anything less than that. I’ve been doing this for 29 years and I've never seen anything like it.”
In fact, Smith has turned down potential clients seeking to hire her firm to help in staffing because, "we fear we can’t help them for general labor. People are not moving right now."
The extended unemployment benefit of an extra $300 per week means an unemployed person could make about $660 every week on unemployment. They are saving on costs such as child care by not working too.
