As New Orleans tries to rebuild, companies can find no workers.
Burger King is offering $6,000 hiring bonuses in New Orleans.
This has nothing to do with home business, but I just couldn’t resist!
From the International Herald Tribune
Burger King is offering a $6,000 signing bonus at its New Orleans outlets. Rally’s, a local restaurant chain, has nearly doubled its pay for new employees to $10 an hour.
On any given day, contractors and business owners pass out fliers in downtown New Orleans promising $17 to $20 an hour, plus benefits, for those willing to swing a sledgehammer or cart away stinking debris from homes and businesses devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Canal Street, once a crowded boulevard of commerce, now resembles a sparsely populated open-air job fair.
“I’d say I’m paying two to three times as much as I would in normal circumstances,” said Iggie Perrin, the president of Southern Electronics, a supplier in New Orleans, who has offered as much as $30 an hour for salvage work.
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