UPS plans to rent greater than 100,000 employees : NPR

UPS plans to rent greater than 100,000 additional employees to assist deal with a rise in packages in the course of the essential vacation season. That is just 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 essential vacation season. That is just 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, in keeping with hiring the earlier two years.

Vacation season volumes often begin rising in October and stay excessive into January. Whereas on-line buying has slowed from the peak of the pandemic, it is nonetheless effectively above historic norms.

UPS stated Wednesday that there will probably 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. In recent times, in response to 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 suggestion, in response to Danelle McCusker Rees, the president of human relations at UPS. That is down 5 minutes from final yr.

Rees began at UPS as a seasonal employee.

The job market stays simply as aggressive because it was final yr, 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 median 487,000 a month over the previous yr, in response to a authorities report final week.

The jobless price reached 3.7%, its highest degree since February. However it elevated for a wholesome motive: A whole bunch 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 folks.