As an Amazon associate, it is important to consider your options when it comes to food. More so because the work is physically demanding and food will be an important factor in being a productive employee. Food sold at Amazon…
Warehouse employees are a critical asset in warehouse operations. Knowing how to hire the best people for the job is important. A simple but effective recruitment and retention strategy for warehouse workers is as follows: Advertising for warehouse positions Consider…
The Earn and Learn program is a tuition assistance package offered by UPS. With this program, UPS part time package handlers and other employees can pay for their college expenses. It is available in more than 100 locations in the…
Birds are a health and safety hazard especially in food grade warehouses as they may carry disease and can be destructive to food sources. Their droppings also make floors slippery, and their nests are a fire hazard. Owls trapped in…
Just like most warehouse jobs, working as a package handler has its pros and cons. First, working as a package handler for UPS can be hard on your body. This is the #1 reason why most package handlers quit. Other…
Birds are a health and safety hazard especially in food grade warehouses as they may carry diseases. Their droppings also make floors slippery, and their nests are a fire hazard. Pigeons trapped in a warehouse can lead to expenses that…
Most Walmart distribution centers (DCs) no longer do preemployment drug testing on their associates. This may be because DCs have high turnover rates which makes spending money for tests on employees who may leave soon too expensive. Additionally, with marijuana…
Inventory Control Specialist is the role charged with auditing, verifying and reconciling stock and equipment in a warehousing facility. Inventory control specialists also investigate and resolve stock discrepancies as well as address inventory concerns. Other terms used for Inventory control…
ALDI warehouses do not drug test their non-managerial employees except for certain situations that we will discuss in this article. In the last few years preemployment drug testing has not been carried out in many ADLI distribution centers (DCs). This…
Efforts to unionize Amazon warehouse workers in the US have been gaining steam in recent weeks. Unionization has long been a contentious issue between Amazon employees and their management. Currently, Amazon does not have any unionized warehouses in the US.…