Hundreds of holiday jobs are there for the taking around here — and employers are having trouble finding people to fill them.
Major distribution companies like GSI Commerce and UPS are struggling to fill jobs to ship holiday orders.
UPS still had 200 openings paying $8.50 per hour on four shifts this week, three months after setting out to hire 1,000 temporary workers. The shipping company also is offering employees $150 bonuses for referring new hires, who also get the bonus.
GSI Commerce, an eBay subsidiary that has handled online retail sales for other companies such as Bath and Body Works, Burberry and Dick’s Sporting Goods, has warehouses in Louisville, the suburb of Shepherdsville and Northern Kentucky. It needs 300 people locally and is offering attendance- and performance-based bonuses, in addition to a $50 bonus for referrals. All shifts are available, and pay ranges from $9.25 to $10.50 an hour.
Amazon is offering up to $12 per hour for jobs at its new Jeffersonville, Ind., warehouse, where positions in gift wrapping, shipping, packing and receiving are available, according to the website for Amazon’s hiring agency.
“At this point, every distribution center in the area is hiring,” said John Richie of Kelly Services, which handles recruitment for GSI Commerce. The 300 positions that Kelly is seeking to fill for GSI Commerce are likely to increase because of an unexpected boost in business at the Shepherdsville warehouse.
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