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Hiring Underway At Amazon Fulfillment Center In Kernersville

Items are readied for shipment at an Amazon fulfillment center In DuPont, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Amazon has begun the hiring process for a new fulfillment center in Kernersville, where it expects to fill over 1,000 full-time positions. 

While the company has not announced when the center will open, a spokesperson tells the Winston-Salem Journal that hiring generally begins a few weeks prior to launch. The facility is expected to be at full operation in time for the 2020 holiday season.

Amazon will hire employees to pick, pack, and ship items at a starting pay of $15 an hour. There will also be several hundred delivery-related positions with a higher hourly wage.

There has been concern about coronavirus spread in some Amazon centers, mostly in the New York and New Jersey areas.

The company released a statement saying it has invested heavily in COVID-19 related safety measures that include temperature checks, masks, gloves, sanitation stations, and enhanced cleaning.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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