Retailers are also looking to hire
fewer seasonal workers overall this year, the retail trade group is anticipating.
Not exact matches
In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary
workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on
fewer seasonal associates.
In the Richmond district, there were «numerous reports of strong labor demand,» though the report also said
few businesses offered permanent jobs to
seasonal workers and there was high turnover among low - skill
workers.
«Whatever your ethics or religion, it's just good business to treat the
workers well,» he told me, as we toured the neat, clean, well - maintained barracks that house 480
seasonal workers on the farm at harvest time, most of them very poor Nicaraguan families who come into Costa Rica for a
few months each year.
Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo (R - New Suffolk) agreed, saying he predicts farm stands and smaller businesses that require
seasonal help will lose a majority of their revenue due to income tax increases, requiring them to either hire
fewer employees or pay
workers off the books.
We know that our friends and neighbours in the Temporary Foreign
Workers,
Seasonal Agricultural
Workers and Caregivers Programs have
fewer rights and live in greater fear than other Ontarians.
Twenty - six percent of employers across industries plan to take on
seasonal workers in the last
few months of the year.