Amazon Canada is facing a severe labor shortage and is expanding its workforce and raising salaries!

Amazon Canada announced on Monday that it will hire 15,000 new warehouse and delivery workers this fall and increase wages for its front-line employees to between $17 and $21.65 per hour, up from a previous starting salary of $16.

Currently, Amazon Canada has 25,000 employees in 25 communities in five provinces. According to Statistics Canada, the country added 90,200 jobs in August and the unemployment rate reached 7.1%. This is the lowest level since the outbreak last year. Amazon needs to recruit a lot of people to make up for the labor shortage.

In addition to the salary increase for front-line employees, Amazon said existing employees will also receive an additional pay of $1.6 to $2.2 per hour.

Earlier this year, in order to add 75,000 new employees, Amazon announced that it would increase the wages of new employees in the United States to $17 per hour to attract talent. Last week, Amazon announced that it would pay full college tuition for employees across the United States, a move that will cost the company more than $1 billion in the next four years.

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