UPS Seems to Add 100,000 Staff for the Holidays
A UPS driver unloads packages for supply in San Francisco. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Information)
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UPS Inc. stated Sept. 26 it plans to rent greater than 100,000 seasonal employees for the height vacation transport season this 12 months.
The quantity of packages UPS delivers every day can almost double throughout the vacation season, driving the necessity to ramp up staffing considerably.
The corporate plans to rent full-time and part-time drivers and bundle handlers at a whole bunch of places across the nation. It additionally has some everlasting positions obtainable. The 100,000 jobs is on par with the transport big’s seasonal hiring final 12 months. These ought to apply at upsjobs.com.
Pay begins at $21 an hour for bundle handlers and $23 an hour for drivers, which is up considerably from final 12 months because of the new Teamsters labor contract.
UPS stated its on-line job utility course of now takes lower than 20 minutes to get a job supply, and almost 80% of its seasonal jobs don’t require an interview.
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The corporate usually hires tens of 1000’s of seasonal employees into everlasting positions annually, and Matt Lavery, UPS director of worldwide sourcing, recruiting and onboarding, stated he expects that to be related this 12 months.
The union contract additionally now requires the corporate to supply seasonal driving positions to present part-time employees, earlier than hiring new non permanent employees from exterior.
“We’ve at all times employed some inside workers, however we’re going to do a greater job this 12 months,” Lavery stated.
That additionally means UPS will begin exterior hiring of seasonal help drivers who use their very own automobiles to ship packages later within the season, just for the Nov. 15-Dec. 26 interval.
Whereas UPS has seen declines in bundle volumes this 12 months, and there’s some financial uncertainty about how the vacation season will shake out, Lavery stated the corporate can use expertise and automation to scale up or down, however “the variety of individuals we have to make deliveries goes to stay fixed.”
Different firms are additionally hiring 1000’s for the vacation transport season, together with Amazon, which stated it’s going to rent 250,000 employees for the vacation season. The U.S. Postal Service stated it’s going to rent 10,000 seasonal workers.
UPS Inc. ranks No. 1 on the Transport Matters Prime 100 record of the biggest for-hire carriers in North America.
