Episode 237: Infrastructure Spending Could Further Tighten Labor Market

Still included in the President’s infrastructure package are massive investments in workforce recruitment and training to produce the workers necessary to actually build the roads and bridges in the plan. The investment is sure to attract and retain the very workers that restaurants and retailers are competing for. We’ll discuss the ramifications of the spending plan on the labor market. And as the saying goes, “money talks”. This week, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the same BlackRock with over $10 Trillion in assets, sent his annual letter to CEOs and this year is putting them on notice that failure to properly address the climate space will result in a virtual blacklisting by his and other venture capital funds. We’ll discuss. The Human Rights Campaign has published its annual report of workplace inclusion and employers’ commitment to LGBTQ Equity. And low and behold, nine restaurant companies made the list of best places to work. We’ll take a look at that and what that means for industry reputation. We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.