That was the phrase that is killing businesses. Many lower paid people are walking out of their jobs thinking they not only get unemployment insurance for 10 months but also an additional $2,400 a month ($600/week) to go with it. They literally make more on unemployment than if they worked.
But just if the employer has work, can they just “walk off”?
My prediction is that this will not cause much harm at all. I say this mainly because I believe most of those low-wage jobs lost in this fiasco are never coming back anyway. I hate to any businesses close, but some sectors of our economy were very unstable to begin with. Restaurants, for example, are notoriously marginal — often even in GOOD times.