Amazon decides to hire 75,000 workers in US and Canada to meet growing demand

According to details, the online retail giant is offering new jobs in transport and warehouses, and they will be permanent roles.

It will also offer new staff who has already been vaccinated against Covid-19 a $100 (£71.19) bonus.

Those who will be hired on the new jobs will receive an average starting pay of $17 per hour - following recent wage hike it introduced.

The company has also offered bonuses of up to $1,000 in some areas to attract new staff.

Amazon now hires more than 100,000 workers worldwide, having gone on a huge hiring spree during Covid-19. In the United Kingdom (UK), the company offered jobs to more than ten thousand people.

As people stayed at home due to extensive lockdowns and restrictions, the retailer had its most lucrative year to date in 2020. But it also faced allegations over poor working conditions, as well strikes at warehouses in the US, Italy and Germany.

Stuart Appelbaum, president of the RWDSU, said that Amazon has to keep hiring because of the extraordinary turnover at all of its warehouses.

"No matter what they pay people, it doesn't compensate for the way they treat people and the unsatisfactory working conditions at Amazon facilities - and people keep leaving these jobs.”