Amazon Holding Jobs Day at Fulfillment Centers, With Goal to Fill 50,000 Posts

Less than a month after its third Prime Day retail sales event, Amazon is launching a new event day next week to support order fulfillment. Amazon is looking to fill 50,000 jobs in the U.S., it said Wednesday, announcing the first Amazon Jobs Day, Aug. 2, at 10 of its fulfillment centers. On Jobs Day, Amazon will open fulfillment centers in Baltimore; Etna, Ohio; Chattanooga; Fall River, Massachusetts; Hebron, Kentucky; Kenosha, Wisconsin; Kent, Washington; Robbinsville, New Jersey; Romeoville, Illinois; and Whitestown, Indiana, from 8 a.m. to noon local time, giving tours and information sessions on work life at Amazon, it said. The company plans to make “thousands” of on-the-spot job offers to qualified candidates, it said, and it’s hiring for “tens of thousands” full-time pack and ship jobs at fulfillment centers. In Buffalo and Oklahoma City, Amazon will hold off-site Jobs Day events from 8 a.m. to noon local time for part-time positions, some with benefits, it said. In addition to usual benefits, including up to 20 days paid vacation, Amazon is touting a paid-leave benefit that allows employees to share their Amazon paid leave with a spouse or domestic partner without paid leave, it said. Amazon will cover the event on Facebook Live.