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发帖数: 3656 | 1 https://www.wsj.com/articles/our-restaurants-cant-reopen-until-august-
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Our Restaurants Can’t Reopen Until August
Employees refuse to return to work as long as they’re getting an extra $600
a week.
By Kurt Huffman
April 21, 2020 5:34 pm ET
Portland, Ore.
My company works with local chefs to open and operate their restaurants. We
are currently a partner in more than 20 of them. We closed our dining rooms
March 15, two days before the governor mandated we do so, and had to lay off
some 700 employees. We are doing our best to stay alive by providing
takeout and delivery service at about half our restaurants. Our goal is to
survive until we are allowed to reopen.
Although our limited operations leave us at only 30% of our usual revenue,
takeout and delivery has worked better than expected at most locations.
After two weeks of getting the systems in place and understanding the
challenges of a different business model, we realized that we needed to hire
back some of our staff to help with the demand. That proved harder than we
expected.
We started making the calls last week, just as our furloughed employees
began receiving weekly Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation checks of
$600 under the Cares Act. When we asked our employees to come back, almost
all said, “No thanks.” If they return to work, they’ll have to take a pay
cut.
The starting wage for a line cook in one of our restaurants is $15 an hour.
These cooks receive at least $1 an hour in tips, so at a minimum they make $
16 an hour, or $640 before taxes for a 40-hour week. The overwhelming
majority of our laid-off cooks qualified for Oregon unemployment
compensation of 1.25% of their annual gross wages weekly, or $416 in our
example. The extra $224 a week provides a strong incentive to return to work.
But as of this week, that same employee receives $1,016 a week, or $376 more
than he made as a full time employee. Why on earth would he want to come
back to work?
This has had the perverse effect of making it impossible for us to hire
enough people even for our limited takeout and delivery business at a time
of rapidly rising unemployment. It will be an even bigger problem once we
are allowed to reopen our dining rooms. And it will persist at least until
July 31, when the unemployment bonus expires. I’d have to offer my cooks $
25.40 an hour to match what the government is paying them not to work.
The Trump administration is talking about setting a timeline for when the
country can “open for business.” For my business, Congress has already
locked down that date. We plan to open our dining rooms on Aug. 1, once the
government stops paying people $15 an hour, on top of standard unemployment
compensation, to stay home. | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 2 继续隔离吧，不工作拿钱，经济崩溃白灯躺赢，主党州一直隔离到11月就大功告成了。 | f**********n
发帖数: 29853 | 3 经济崩溃了，对你有啥好吃呢？我学学。
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 继续隔离吧，不工作拿钱，经济崩溃白灯躺赢，主党州一直隔离到11月就大功告成了。
| T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 4 就是指出一个政治现实。
: 经济崩溃了，对你有啥好吃呢？我学学。
【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: 经济崩溃了，对你有啥好吃呢？我学学。
| f**********n
发帖数: 29853 | 5 哦。那我请问，经济崩溃了，对你有好处吗？
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 就是指出一个政治现实。
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: 经济崩溃了，对你有啥好吃呢？我学学。
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发帖数: 10469 | 6 腿爷躺赢，祥林嫂精神愉悦
【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: 哦。那我请问，经济崩溃了，对你有好处吗？
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