Amazon, Marriott and other companies vow to hire thousands of refugees in Europe

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Multinational companies including Amazon, Marriott and Hilton pledged Monday to hire more than 13,000 refugees, including Ukrainian women who have fled the war with Russia, over the next three years in Europe.

FILE - A person walks past the San Francisco Marriott Union Square hotel on July 11, 2019, in San Francisco. Multinational companies including Amazon, Marriott and Hilton pledged Monday June 19, 2023 to hire more than 13,000 refugees, including Ukrainian women who have fled the war with Russia, over the next three years in Europe.

The hiring push in Europe was organized by the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a nonprofit founded by Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya that connects businesses and refugees, and is being unveiled at a gathering in Paris. The group's first summit in the U.S. last year led to commitments to hire 22,725 refugees.

He said the vast majority of jobs will be hourly roles at fulfillment and storage centers and in transport and delivery.earlier this year, part of a wave of layoffs after tech companies ramped up hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those layoffs primarily affected salaried office jobs, Agboka said. She began living in basements but left as Russian forces approached Kyiv. She drove 40 hours to reach Moldova, thankful that she “didn’t drive on a single land mine and nobody shot into my car.”

 

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