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Where are the workers?
Talking to HR pros, state labor chief notes reversal from some past years
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Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler talks in conversational style to human resources managers at the Workforce Readiness Conference hosted by the Statesboro Area chapter of SHRM. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
Talking to human resources professionals at a conference in Statesboro, Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said the most common gripe he hears has changed since the high-unemployment period a few years ago to "Where are all the workers?" Butler, first elected in 2010, heads the Georgia Department of Labor. He was the last of three keynote speakers for the Workforce Readiness Conference hosted Friday by the Statesboro Area Society for Human Resource Management at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center on the Georgia Southern University campus.
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