Originally Posted by amanuensis

The newspaper says that restaurant openings at the airport are delayed due to lack of labor. Some jobs offer up to $18 per hour and still don't have takers. One reason is because would-be workers can pick and choose where they want to work, and the airport is not a popular place to work because it is far from where most workers live and it can take three weeks to get a security badge issued. And you can't start until the badge is issued. So applicants learn that and decide to take a different offer somewhere else, where they can start the next day.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/06/...ake-citys-new/