Plenty of work for seasonal retail workers
By Steve Matthews, Bloomberg
Wanda Tucker was hired on the spot for a part-time job with Gap Inc. Banana Republic chain earlier this month after searching for a full-time position since April.
“I thought I was just going in for an interview,” said Tucker, 53, of Rex, Ga., who’d finished five years of Army Reserves postings before entering the workforce. “It has been a blessing to have some money coming into the household.”
Workers are facing the most favorable job market for seasonal work since the 18-month recession that started in December 2007, getting hired with fewer interviews and in some cases with higher pay.
Low wage jobs with no future. No ability to buy a house, car etc.
Its a Job,Hopefully the ones that stand out in front of stores with signs can get one .
Kathy: They have to want one first. Don’t hold your breath. Seems they have left Raley’s for now. Big Police presence there recently. I don’t know if that had anything to do with the Trolls but I haven’t seen them since.
Map, ANY job is better than NO JOB. You’ve got to start somewhere! A few months on a ‘low wage, no future’ job gives one the experience on the resume for moving up.
It’s called econ 101.
It’s people who demand the high paying penthouse as their starting point while sneering at the opportunity to work up to it, who stay on welfare and unemployment FOREVER.
Leeches.
A lot of us remember when minimum wage was below three an hour and the work was for work experience and a small check was better than nothing. Now it is at nine an hour. The problem now is the growing masses of unemployable people who don’t want work because they are on the govt. poverty system with no plans to work. Welfare cut offs are something that should never have been stopped for healthy people who can work and just like unemployment checks, if they are given a cut off, and the old welfare limit was five years, there is at least the idea it ends at some point and employment might become an idea. This whole “livable wage” movement for unskilled workers is a farce because the consumer will be the one paying it which is another subsidy or tax that will be passed on by much higher costs.
Dogula I understand econ 101 Most of the people staffing these jobs have been out of work in their chosen profession for some time.
We have been creating jobs in the service industry not manufacturing. There is a huge difference in pay between the two and the quality of life-housing,food, vehicles and travel is very different.
Manufacturing as we knew it in the 1950’s to mid 70’s has left and I fear it will not be returning anytime soon based on how corporations are taxed, how much individuals are taxed and how cheap labor is in third world countries.
People not only need jobs but they need quality living wage jobs.
I am not for artificially inflating the minimum wage. We need to create those jobs which support the higher wages.
While we are at it maybe tort legislation should be addressed. Along with the cost of medications-have you been to Europe and seen how cheap the same drug is over there?
There are a lot of issues with our country right now and so far the elected officials are not doing their job on either side of the line.