*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management*
*APRIL 16, 2021*
*Title:* Murphy Considers $40M for Undocumented Workers. Immigrant Groups Call It ‘Insulting.'
*Source:* NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
*Author:* Sophie Nieto-Munoz
*Date:* April 15, 2021
*Summary:* Gov. Phil Murphy is considering a $40 million fund for the state’s 460,000 undocumented immigrants who have not been eligible for any coronavirus stimulus checks or unemployment benefits, according to immigrant advocacy groups who were on a Tuesday night call with the governor’s office.
*Link:* https://bit.ly/3x0Xo9K
*Title:* Are Unemployment Benefits Really Making It Impossible for Restaurants to Hire?
*Source:* Slate
*Author:* Jordan Weissmann
*Date:* April 15, 2021
*Summary:* With spring in bloom and millions of Americans getting vaccinated by the day, business has started picking back up for America’s financially battered restaurants. There’s just one problem: They can’t find enough hands to hire. That, anyway, is what’s been reported in a raft of articles describing an industrywide labor shortage that’s challenged eateries across the U.S. and even forced some to close, right when it seemed they’d reached the light at the end of COVID’s long, dark tunnel. Restaurants have been especially troubled by a lack of back-of-the-house staff like line cooks; after all, you can’t serve food if nobody’s in the kitchen.
*Link:* https://bit.ly/32xZekJ
*Title:* With Layoffs Down and Spending Up, U.S. Rebound Gains Momentum
*Source:* Associated Press
*Author:* Christopher Rugaber and Joseph Pisani
*Date:* April 15, 2021
*Summary:* A much-awaited economic boom coming off the pandemic recession appeared to edge closer to reality Thursday with fresh data showing the pace of layoffs dwindling, consumers spending freely and manufacturing rebounding.
*Link:* https://bit.ly/3ag1gdb
*Title:* Biden Says His Climate Plan Means Jobs. Some Union Members are Skeptical
*Source:* NPR
*Author:* Reid Frazier
*Date:* April 15, 2021
*Summary:* President Biden is selling the climate-friendly aspects of his $2 trillion infrastructure plan as a chance to create good-paying union jobs. But at a local branch of one of the country's oldest unions, there are doubts that dealing with climate change will be good for workers here, in the oil-and-gas state of Pennsylvania.
*Link:* https://n.pr/3aeml7U
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