L’AARP et la chaîne de magazine Home Depot signent un accord pour l’embauche de 1700 salariés Seniors. Il s’agit de la plus importante opération de ressources humaines concernant les salariés de plus de 55 ans aux USA.
In one of the broadest efforts
so far to link the nation’s aging work force with available jobs, AARP
and Home Depot Inc. are forming a national hiring partnership, Friday’s
Wall Street Journal reported.
Under
the agreement, AARP will recruit and train workers aged 55 and over
to help fill jobs in Home Depot’s 1,700 home-improvement stores across
the country.
Many retailers, including Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. (WMT), have turned to retirees in an ad hoc way as greeters,
baggers and cashiers. But the pact between AARP and Home Depot is the
first attempt to target thousands of older workers in the U.S.
Home Depot, based in Atlanta,
has about 300,000 employees. It plans to add 35, 000 jobs this year,
in addition to the 100,000 new workers it expects to need to make up
for attrition and promotions.
Neither Home Depot nor AARP would
estimate how many hires might result from the new partnership. But Home
Depot executives said they hope to find workers of all stripes — with
skills in plumbing, landscaping, design and customer service, among
others — who can fill full-time and part-time jobs that offer health
and dental benefits. Wages will range from $7 to $20 an hour, depending
on the skill level required.
Increasing numbers of Americans
are considering working in retirement to make up for stock-market losses
or inadequate planning. The labor-force-participation rate for people
50 and older climbed nearly seven percentage points in the past decade,
hitting 46% in 2003, according to a new AARP study. A new MetLife Inc.
survey found that 48% of U.S. workers believe they will have to take
on part- time or full-time work to maintain their financial stability
in retirement
