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President Highlights Ways to Help Rebuild the Workforce

May 11, 2021

Via: SHRM
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President Joe Biden called on employers to encourage people who are unemployed to get back to work by helping them get vaccinated, reviewing pay practices and providing a safe work environment.

“We need to stay focused on creating jobs and beating this pandemic today and building back better for tomorrow,” he said during a press conference on May 10.

Biden noted the disappointing news that April’s unemployment rate increased to 6.1 percent from 6 percent in March. However, he thinks the overall trend line shows that the country is headed in the right direction. “I never said … that climbing out of the deep, deep hole our economy was in would be simple, easy, immediate or perfectly steady.”

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