There will be work: for the end-of-year season, Amazon will hire 250,000 workers

Amazon announced this Thursday that it intends to hire 250,000 full-time, part-time and temporary workers in its transportation and distribution departments to clients in the United States ahead of the Christmas holidays.

The company is investing $2.2 billion in additional compensation for its logistics and transportation employees, raising the average wage to more than $29 an hoursays Sandy Gordon, vice president of Global Operations and Employee Experience of the company, in a statement.

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According to Amazon, all temporary employees earn at least $18 per hour and have access to “comprehensive” benefits such as health coverage “from day one.”

Full-time jobs also offer access to educational programs such as Career Choice‘, through which Amazon advances the payment of the tuition of its employees so that they obtain university degrees or certificates.

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Additionally, the e-commerce giant provides access to a earned pay, medical, vision and dental insurance and the 401 (k) plan, a personal pension account.

Likewise, it guarantees up to 20 weeks of paid pregnancy or paternity leave for biological parents, and six weeks for adoptive parents that meet a series of requirements.

Finally, jobs include the ‘Resources for Living’ program, which offers mental health and financial services to employees and their families.

According to the company, Almost a third of the people who have worked for Amazon during the Christmas season return each year at this time.

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The company assures that Temporary workers who stay with the company could receive “an average salary increase of 15%” for the first three years of your contract.

Amazon thus joins other retail giants such as Target to hire more employees and face the Christmas season, when Internet sales are expected to increase by 8.4%, to exceed $240 billion in the country, according to data from the Adobe firm.

EFE