Since it was known that the COVID-19 turned into a pandemic client They began to worry because the most had to close to prevent the new outbreak of the coronavirus spread more, which also implied the dismissal of personnel, but in United States two bigs retail companies are hiring more staff.
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The two big companies that are planning hiring staff in the United States, while it is estimated that there will be waves of layoffs in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic are Walmart and Amazon reported VOA.
Walmart, considered the largest US retail chain in the country, reported that will hire 150.000 workers for its stores and distribution centers located in the United States until the end of May, approximately.
The reason? Due to the fact that many people have already assumed that they must stay at home and comply with the quarantine in their homes, online purchases by households seeking to stock up without having to go personally to the markets are increasing rapidly.
In the case of Amazon, announced that he will hire 100.000 new employees andn United States to meet the demand for online shopping.
I support airlines not to lay off employees
The CEO and union leaders of American Airlines wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, and to the legislators of the Congress to request that they approve - as quickly as possible - a support for airlines since due to the coronavirus pandemic, air traffic has drastically decreased, which implies that employees can be fired.
They brought up the cases that occurred in other countries with the airlines.
In the Frankfurt airport have laid off 18.000 of its 22.000 employees, they have also lowered the working hours of those who remain, because "traffic has practically stopped."
Hong Kong Low Cost Airline HK Express suspended all flights until the end of April.
American Airlines will only fly cargo between the United States and Europe.
For their part, the companies FedEx and UPS They believe that it will carry out most of the cargo flights, which were usually done by commercial airlines, which have radically lowered flights,
It was also learned that Air Canada will lay off more than 5.000 flight attendants, approximately 69% of those employees in the month of April.
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