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Florida unemployment drops, businesses say they still can’t find employees Florida’s unemployment rate improved from 5.1 percent in April 2021. Last month, 321,000 people qualified as unemployed from a workforce of 10.54 million. The workforce grew by 309,000 people from April 2021 to last month. The state lost 1.28 million jobs from February 2020 to April 2020, when businesses shuttered …

More than three quarters of restaurant and hotel owners say they’ve had to work longer hours because they couldn’t hire enough staff. Restaurant and hotel operators across Quebec are feeling the squeeze as Omicron exacerbates an already worrisome labour shortage. Seventy-nine per cent of Quebec hotel and restaurant owners say they’ve had to work longer hours as a result of the workforce scarcity, …