Amazon to hire 100,000 more workers in US and Canada
E-commerce giant has announced plans to add 7,000 permanent workers in the UK and has made similar announcements in Ireland and SA
14 September 2020 - 19:52
San Francisco — Amazon is hiring 100,000 full and part-time employees across the US and Canada, offering starting wages of at least $15 an hour, the latest announcement in the Seattle-based e-commerce giant’s hiring spree.
The new jobs include benefits and sign-on bonuses of as much as $1,000 in some cities and access to training programmes, the company said in a statement on Monday. This is in addition to the 33,000 corporate and technology employees the Seattle-based e-commerce giant announced last week, it said...
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