UPS plans to hire more than 100,000 workers to help handle the critical holiday surge in packages. That’s the same for the 2021 and 2020 holidays.
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UPS plans to hire more than 100,000 workers to help handle the critical holiday surge in packages. That’s the same for the 2021 and 2020 holidays.
Gene J. Puskar / AP
NEW YORK – UPS plans to hire more than 100,000 workers to help process peak holiday This season, in line with the recruitment of two years ago.
Holiday production typically starts to pick up in October and stays high into January. Although online shopping has slowed since the peak of the pandemic, it’s still far ahead of historical standards. .
UPS said Wednesday that there will be jobs available for full-time and part-time seasonal positions, primarily package handlers, drivers and driver helpers. UPS encourages seasonal jobs such as positions that can lead to year-round employment. In recent years, according to UPS, about 35% of people hired for seasonal package handling jobs have permanent locations.
Seasonal drivers with UPS start at $21 per hour, with trailer drivers earning up to $35 per hour. The starting salary of a package handler can range from $15 – $21 per hour.
According to Danelle McCusker Rees, UPS president of human relations, the company continues to streamline the hiring process, and most hiring takes just 25 minutes – from filling out an online application to receiving it. suggestion. This is down five minutes from last year.
Rees started at UPS as a seasonal employee.
Rees said the job market remains as competitive as it was last year in an interview this week with The Associated Press.
Employers 315,000 jobs added in Auguston what economists had expected, down from an average of 487,000 a month over the past year, according to a government report last week.
The unemployment rate hit 3.7%, the highest level since February. But it’s growing for a healthy reason: Hundreds of thousands of people have returned to the job market, and some haven’t found work right away, increasing the government’s unemployment numbers.
