If you’ve been to a restaurant or bar recently, you’ve no doubt felt it up close and personal: The industry’s labor shortage continues unabated, leading to long waits as skeleton crews of servers, kitchen staff and bartenders press to fill the gap. And there’s no end in sight.

Recently released statistics show that March may have been an inflection point for Las Vegas amid the pandemic.

The Nevada Supreme Court hands Republicans a huge win today in Carson City, agreeing unanimously with Republicans that Democrats were wrong about passing two bills in 2019. Both bills raised millions in revenue, which means lawmakers now have to plug a budget hole that’s north of $100 million, potentially paying back what the court has ruled as an unconstitutionally collected payroll tax and a fee collected at the Division of Motor Vehicles.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Elaine Davis of Las Vegas worked as a home health specialist, caring for developmentally disabled clients.

According to a recent report from Bloomberg, 1.4 million mothers who left the workforce due to the pandemic are struggling to get back in, even though the job market is wide open right now. UNLV Economics Professor C. Jeffrey Waddoups, Ph.D., joined Mondays with Monica to share some insight into the problem.

Las Vegas is facing a shortage of rental cars, like many other locations across the US. It comes after national rental companies sold off 30 to 40 percent — or maybe even more — of their fleets following the initial COVID-19 outbreak.

A bill that begins to address employee misclassification within the construction industry has drawn fierce criticism from personal employment agencies, who say it would force them to upend their existing business models.

A bill that begins to address employee misclassification within the construction industry has drawn fierce criticism from personal employment agencies, who say it would force them to upend their existing business models.

Just over a year ago, restaurant owners beset by a shutdown, looming capacity restrictions, social-distancing requirements and other measures necessitated by the pandemic faced the often heartbreaking task of laying off many of their employees. Times certainly have changed.

Faculty across the state’s higher education system are pushing for a new law this year that would expand the state’s nascent public collective bargaining infrastructure to include professors and other professional staff — a sharp break from years of control of the process by the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE).

The Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) has yet to release new details on gaming floor capacity and other COVID-19-related restrictions for the period starting next month. A tentative deadline is set for May 1.

As more people get vaccinated against COVID-19, many are starting to feel safe enough to start traveling again. The Las Vegas Strip is already seeing that demand and hotels are needing to hire more staff, and fast.