As COVID-19 pandemic eases up, businesses could face ‘the most dangerous time’ as they try to lure workers and customers

Unemployment claims have declined total since spiking to greater than 26,000 in Might 2020 and once more to greater than 10,700 in January, following the autumn and winter surge in coronavirus instances and renewed restrictions on companies and client exercise. The claims fell to a pandemic low of 1,554 in April, although doubled to three,002 by way of Might, probably owing to seasonal layoffs and refiling necessities below the latest federal reduction laws, mentioned Bekki Leonard of Anne Arundel County Workforce Improvement.