The number of US workers on temporary layoff dropped 31% in June

Before the coronavirus picked up, it was the American jobs market that was rebounding. Compared with May, when the number of workers on temporary layoff fell by just 15%, the June data suggests signs of recovery and that “workers are being recalled to their jobs in large numbers,” says Julia Pollak, a labor economist at ZipRecruiter. Workers on temporary layoff were already in a precarious state, and now there’s the risk that recalled workers could be laid off again, which is already happening in some parts of the country.