UPS To Hire Over 100,000 For Holiday Season

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  • Over a third of past seasonal hires landed permanent jobs at UPS
  • For those displaced by COVID-19, UPS seasonal jobs offer an opportunity to launch a new career
  • Flexible shifts, full- and part-time positions available at thousands of locations
  • Applications available at upsjobs.com and at select UPS locations

UPS announced today that it expects to hire over 100,000 seasonal employees to support the anticipated annual increase in package volume that will begin in October 2020 and continue through January 2021.

“We’re preparing for a record peak holiday season. The COVID-19 pandemic has made our services more important than ever,” said Charlene Thomas, Chief Human Resources Officer. “We plan to hire over 100,000 people for UPS’s seasonal jobs, and anticipate a large number will move into permanent roles after the holidays. At a time when millions of Americans are looking for work, these jobs are an opportunity to start a new career with UPS.”

The company is filling full- and part-time seasonal positions – primarily package handlers, drivers, driver-helpers, and personal vehicle drivers – by offering competitive wages across multiple shifts in thousands of locations across the country.

Over the last three years, about 35% of people hired by UPS for seasonal package handler jobs were later hired in a permanent position when the holidays were over, and about 123,000 UPS employees – nearly a third of the company’s U.S. workforce – started in seasonal positions.

That opportunity for a permanent job is important to many. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of seasonal hires want their job to turn into a long-term position, according to a recent survey of Americans who hold, held or would consider a seasonal job.*

Through the company’s Earn and Learn program, eligible seasonal employees who are students can earn up to $1,300 towards college expenses, in addition to their hourly pay, for three months of continuous employment. UPS has invested nearly $670 million in tuition assistance – nearly $30 million a year since the program was established in 1997 – helping over 300,000 employees pay for their college education.

Interested applicants should apply at www.upsjobs.com.

Permanent UPS jobs – including part-time jobs – come with great pay and benefits, including healthcare and retirement benefits. At many UPS locations, part-time employees are eligible to receive up to $25,000 in tuition assistance through Earn and Learn.

* TRUE Global Intelligence, the in-house research practice of FleishmanHillard, conducted an online survey of 1,000 past, present and potential American seasonal workers on behalf of UPS.
 

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This is great!

We need all the help we can get....unless it endangers the lives of our loved ones or the general public. Will UPS COVID test everyday or at least temperature check every driver and helper?

Will social distancing be enacted and enforced?

Obviously, Driver helpers will be a non-starter. (unless they are family members to the driver they will be jumping for)???

UPS already attempted to circumvent the common sense CDC guidelines in March and/or April regarding helpers.

UPS has a moral, ethical and legal responsibility to the public and UPS employees. " As always, our highest priority is to help ensure the health and safety of our employees, customers, and suppliers ... & ...

  • Compliance with applicable government regulations related to the containment of Coronavirus."

Social distancing is 100% possible while in the package car. 1 person on the car = absolute social distancing.

There is no need to have 2 people in the confined space of the cab of a package car. It is preposterous to have more than one person in that confined space.

Package car drivers may miss the added assistance of helpers this peak; but having helpers is not worth putting our elderly parents, immune compromised loved ones, and others at unnecessary risk of severe illness or death.
 

burrheadd

KING Of GIFS
This is great!

We need all the help we can get....unless it endangers the lives of our loved ones or the general public. Will UPS COVID test everyday or at least temperature check every driver and helper?

Will social distancing be enacted and enforced?

Obviously, Driver helpers will be a non-starter. (unless they are family members to the driver they will be jumping for)???

UPS already attempted to circumvent the common sense CDC guidelines in March and/or April regarding helpers.

UPS has a moral, ethical and legal responsibility to the public and UPS employees. " As always, our highest priority is to help ensure the health and safety of our employees, customers, and suppliers ... & ...

  • Compliance with applicable government regulations related to the containment of Coronavirus."

Social distancing is 100% possible while in the package car. 1 person on the car = absolute social distancing.

There is no need to have 2 people in the confined space of the cab of a package car. It is preposterous to have more than one person in that confined space.

Package car drivers may miss the added assistance of helpers this peak; but having helpers is not worth putting our elderly parents, immune compromised loved ones, and others at unnecessary risk of severe illness or death.

Calm down honey, there will be helpers
 
  • Over a third of past seasonal hires landed permanent jobs at UPS
  • For those displaced by COVID-19, UPS seasonal jobs offer an opportunity to launch a new career
  • Flexible shifts, full- and part-time positions available at thousands of locations
  • Applications available at upsjobs.com and at select UPS locations

UPS announced today that it expects to hire over 100,000 seasonal employees to support the anticipated annual increase in package volume that will begin in October 2020 and continue through January 2021.

“We’re preparing for a record peak holiday season. The COVID-19 pandemic has made our services more important than ever,” said Charlene Thomas, Chief Human Resources Officer. “We plan to hire over 100,000 people for UPS’s seasonal jobs, and anticipate a large number will move into permanent roles after the holidays. At a time when millions of Americans are looking for work, these jobs are an opportunity to start a new career with UPS.”

The company is filling full- and part-time seasonal positions – primarily package handlers, drivers, driver-helpers, and personal vehicle drivers – by offering competitive wages across multiple shifts in thousands of locations across the country.

Over the last three years, about 35% of people hired by UPS for seasonal package handler jobs were later hired in a permanent position when the holidays were over, and about 123,000 UPS employees – nearly a third of the company’s U.S. workforce – started in seasonal positions.

That opportunity for a permanent job is important to many. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of seasonal hires want their job to turn into a long-term position, according to a recent survey of Americans who hold, held or would consider a seasonal job.*

Through the company’s Earn and Learn program, eligible seasonal employees who are students can earn up to $1,300 towards college expenses, in addition to their hourly pay, for three months of continuous employment. UPS has invested nearly $670 million in tuition assistance – nearly $30 million a year since the program was established in 1997 – helping over 300,000 employees pay for their college education.

Interested applicants should apply at www.upsjobs.com.

Permanent UPS jobs – including part-time jobs – come with great pay and benefits, including healthcare and retirement benefits. At many UPS locations, part-time employees are eligible to receive up to $25,000 in tuition assistance through Earn and Learn.

* TRUE Global Intelligence, the in-house research practice of FleishmanHillard, conducted an online survey of 1,000 past, present and potential American seasonal workers on behalf of UPS.
Amazon is paying more plus offering $1,000 signing bonus....
 

browned out

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Good news in our center and hopefully the entire local, region, or even nationwide, ; UPS has now allowed drivers to choose if they work with a helper or not this peak season.

This will allow drivers in high risk groups to reduce their exposure to Covid19. A little more exposure to the cold and a few hundred more steps; no death due to working with helpers who may or may follow the CDC guidelines. Good trade off.

Has anyone else been afforded the option of working with a helper or not?

If you are in a high risk group and do not want to risk getting Covid19; you should pursue the no-helper option with your local union and UPS management team or attempt to address it on UPSers.com.

Good luck and stay safe.

UPS has got this....and you might get this.
 

JJinVA

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Good news in our center and hopefully the entire local, region, or even nationwide, ; UPS has now allowed drivers to choose if they work with a helper or not this peak season.

This will allow drivers in high risk groups to reduce their exposure to Covid19. A little more exposure to the cold and a few hundred more steps; no death due to working with helpers who may or may follow the CDC guidelines. Good trade off.

Has anyone else been afforded the option of working with a helper or not?

If you are in a high risk group and do not want to risk getting Covid19; you should pursue the no-helper option with your local union and UPS management team or attempt to address it on UPSers.com.

Good luck and stay safe.

UPS has got this....and you might get this.

Yeah, I was given the option, and I said yes to a helper. But if they start in with this "Im a high risk blah blah blah", Im gonna say, "The only way to be totally safe is to stand right here", and then drive off...
 

burrheadd

KING Of GIFS
Good news in our center and hopefully the entire local, region, or even nationwide, ; UPS has now allowed drivers to choose if they work with a helper or not this peak season.

This will allow drivers in high risk groups to reduce their exposure to Covid19. A little more exposure to the cold and a few hundred more steps; no death due to working with helpers who may or may follow the CDC guidelines. Good trade off.

Has anyone else been afforded the option of working with a helper or not?

If you are in a high risk group and do not want to risk getting Covid19; you should pursue the no-helper option with your local union and UPS management team or attempt to address it on UPSers.com.

Good luck and stay safe.

UPS has got this....and you might get this.

I’ll wear a suba suit before I give up my helper
the money is to easy
Drive and sort and give encouragement is my job during December
 

browned out

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The company wide policy of working with a helper or not during Covid should be uniform. It should be up to the driver. If you want a helper; Fine. If you are in a high risk group and you do not want a helper; Fine.
 

browned out

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If you are a RPCD, 22.4, Air driver etc.; You absolutely have to a safe work environment and the right to work within CDC guidelines.

If you feel having a helper endangers your safety due to COVID19; Inform management that having a helper unnecessarily puts you at risk.
 
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