Every fall, retailers start recruiting seasonal workers to lighten the added workload that typically comes with the holiday season. These seasonal positions usually last a few months and tend to disappear with the new year. However, this is all starting to change.
By Josephine Nesbit
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“When the holidays are over, many of those team members will have the opportunity to stay on board,” Target’s hiring announcement states and as reported by Money.
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UPS is also known for retaining and promoting seasonal staff. “Over the last three years, about one-third of people hired by UPS for seasonal package handler jobs were later hired in a permanent position when the holidays were over,” according to the company’s recruitment announcement, Money added, “and about 138,000 current UPS employees — nearly a third of the company’s U.S. workforce — started in seasonal positions.”
Retailers are offering more than just possible permanent positions to seasonal employees. Target has announced that it would pay seasonal workers an extra $2 per hour for each hour worked during peak dates during the holiday season, GoBankingRates reported. Target has a $15 minimum starting pay.
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