Hospitality industry sees drop in job openings and surge in separations as shutdowns take hold – CNBC

Job openings decreased as 2020 neared a close, with the biggest hit coming to the battered hospitality industry as the Covid pandemic surged.
Total positions opened decreased by 105,000 in November, a 1.6% drop from October and a 3.9% fall from a year earlier, according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released Tuesday.
Leisure and hospitality took an especially hard hit, with a slide in job openings and a sharp increase in layoffs and overall separations.
Though…