{"id":16971,"date":"2012-09-24T15:20:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16971"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:50:11","slug":"wal-mart-to-hire-50000-for-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16971","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart To Hire 50,000 For Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it expects to hire more than 50,000 temporary employees this holiday season and will be offering more hours to its existing workers.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark., says that this year\u2019s holiday hiring will be up slightly from last year, although it declined to give a precise figure for the increase. The discounter operates more than 4,000 stores in the U.S. and employs about 1.4 million people nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart\u2019s announcement Friday follows one by Kohl\u2019s earlier this week indicating its stores will be hiring more than 52,700 people, up more than 10 percent from last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it expects to hire more than 50,000 temporary employees this holiday season and will be offering more hours to its existing workers. The world\u2019s largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark., says that this year\u2019s holiday hiring will be up slightly from last year, although it declined to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}