UPS plans to rent greater than 100,000 additional employees to assist deal with a rise in packages in the course of the crucial vacation season. That is much like the vacation seasons of 2021 and 2020.
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UPS plans to rent greater than 100,000 additional employees to assist deal with a rise in packages in the course of the crucial vacation season. That is much like the vacation seasons of 2021 and 2020.
Gene J. Puskar/AP
NEW YORK — UPS plans to rent greater than 100,000 employees to assist deal with the vacation rush this season, according to hiring the earlier two years.
Vacation season volumes normally begin rising in October and stay excessive into January. Whereas on-line procuring has slowed from the peak of the pandemic, it is nonetheless effectively above historic norms.
UPS stated Wednesday that there shall be job openings for full- and part-time seasonal positions, primarily bundle handlers, drivers and driver helpers. UPS promotes seasonal jobs as positions that may result in year-round employment. Lately, in keeping with UPS, roughly 35% of individuals employed for seasonal package-handling jobs land everlasting positions.
Seasonal drivers with UPS begin at $21 per hour, with tractor-trailer drivers making as a lot as $35 per hour. Package deal handler beginning wages can vary from $15 – $21 per hour.
The corporate continues to streamline its job hiring course of and most hires require solely 25 minutes – from filling out of an internet software to receiving a proposal, in keeping with Danelle McCusker Rees, the president of human relations at UPS. That is down 5 minutes from final 12 months.
Rees began at UPS as a seasonal employee.
The job market stays simply as aggressive because it was final 12 months, stated Rees in an interview this week with The Related Press.
Employers added 315,000 jobs in August, about what economists had anticipated, down from a mean 487,000 a month over the previous 12 months, in keeping with a authorities report final week.
The jobless fee reached 3.7%, its highest stage since February. However it elevated for a wholesome purpose: Lots of of hundreds of individuals went again to the job market, and a few did not discover work straight away, which boosted the federal government’s depend of unemployed individuals.
