On May 8, the locally-owned Painted Horse Bar & Grille, 110 SW Frank Phillips Blvd., posted a letter on its door and social media pages announcing that, due to an ongoing staff shortage, the restaurant would be closed Mondays, no longer accepting reservations and no longer accepting to-go orders after 5 p.m. Still, local businesses continue to struggle, with some forced to reduce hours and other services. We know that once all the extra money goes away June 26, we’re expecting the floodgates (of applicants) to open.” We’re dealing with an unmotivated workforce. “We have a large database (of job-seekers), but getting them to work or accept a position is a challenge. … It is (a problem) completely across the board,” Conditt said. “We have a lot of people calling us because they need help getting people to go to work. In April 2020, it jumped to 13% from 3.2%.Ĭhristie Conditt, branch manager for Bartlesville Express Employment Professionals, said the hiring problem was exaggerated by a seasonal slump in job seekers usually seen during tax season.Ī little more than a year into the pandemic, the “pendulum has swung” from one workforce extreme to the other, she said. In April, Oklahoma unemployment reached 4.2%. Kevin Stitt announced Oklahoma would stop distributing federal unemployment payments on June 26 and issued an executive order creating the Return to Work Incentive
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Several local business owners, professional recruiters and even state-level leaders have cited federal unemployment payments of $300 a week as a driver of the problem. They can’t get people to come, and if they do come, they don’t show back up. “Virtually every one of them needs more people. In recent weeks, Chamber staff have heard the same problem expressed by managers of local manufacturing plants, restaurants and other industries. It’s bad,” said Bartlesville Chamber of Commerce President Sherri Wilt. Oncue is advertising an hourly starting pay of $11 with guaranteed raises every 90 days.
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Keeco, LLC, which operates a pillow factory on Oklahoma 60, raised overtime pay from 1.5-times to two-times hourly pay.īartlesville Public Schools raised its hourly pay for bus drivers by $2 an hour. The Facebook group "Bartlesville Area Jobs" is flooded daily with posts advertising “immediate openings” where candidates “need to start as soon as possible.”Ĭompanies advertise part-time jobs eligible for sign-on bonuses ranging from $100 at Taco Mayo to $1,000 at Osage Casinos. Local employers are taking increasingly desperate measures - and still struggling - to recruit applicants despite statewide unemployment reaching its lowest level since the start of the pandemic.
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