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Amazon Says It's Filling More than 100,000 Season Fulfillment Jobs for Holidays

Amazon said Wednesday it’s filling more than 100,000 seasonal jobs in customer fulfillment and delivery facilities for the holiday shopping season at its new $15 per hour minimum wage (see 1810020023). The company received 70,000 applications in the first 48…

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hours after the wage rate hike from $7.25 an hour, it said, and traffic to AmazonDelivers.Jobs grew 180 percent. “Tens of thousands” of job applicants picked preferred shifts and attended hiring events across the country, it said. Fulfillment needs are biggest in California, Illinois, Washington, Kentucky, New Jersey and Florida, it said.