BAUERNZWEIG, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Many entrepreneurs remember this Labor Day weekend because of the labor shortage.
Elizabeth Villafranca, who owns four restaurants in Farmers Branch, Dallas and Garland, said it was a big problem.
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“We really struggle to find good people,” said Villafranca.
She says her staff at her three Cuquita’s restaurants and her Four Corners Cafe worked a lot of overtime to keep them open.
“We can only do so much without our employees collapsing, it’s really very exhausting,” she said.
It’s the same story on almost every store front in this mall:
They all have signs saying “We’re hiring” in their windows.
Villafranca said, “People come and want $ 20 an hour that we can’t pay.”
Across Texas and across the country, some employment experts say workers are still trying to connect to the right jobs.
However, many companies attribute the labor shortage to improved weekly federal unemployment benefits.
On Labor Day, this will come to an end in large parts of the country.
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Texas actually stopped serving that additional $ 300 weekly check in late June.
But another change is coming.
Texas is ending its own expanded program.
This week the state will stop granting an additional 13 weeks of state unemployment benefit.
It will go back to 26 weeks from what it was before the pandemic started.
Villafranca says she is grateful that the government has helped the people, but welcomes the change.
“It’s time to come back. It is time these benefits may end and people start coming out and making a living for their families, ”she said.
She has given her employees wage increases, but says this is just one of the rising costs she is facing.
“We actually had to increase our prices because goods and services have increased so much. Fajita meat used to cost $ 4.00 a pound and is now up to $ 8.00 a pound. So everything has risen exorbitantly. “
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Villafranca said she is grateful that her customers keep coming back and hopes the workers will come back too.
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