![]() Southwest has seen a drop-off in the number of applicants it gets for each open position. Southwest has nearly 55,000 employees nationwide, including about 10,200 in the Dallas area. labor force is about 3 million people smaller than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic and that doesn’t account for the millions of new workers that should have been added to the labor force during that time. ![]() ![]() Southwest raised it minimum wage to $15 an hour this summer.Īirlines along with thousands of other businesses are also facing a shortage of workers. “We’ve de facto become a country with a $15 minimum wage it feels like,” Jordan said. Even with all those efforts and aggressive hiring targets, Southwest has decided to cut back its flying schedule this fall based on staffing challenges. The airline has raised its minimum wage, started offering employee referral bonuses and is holding hiring events across the country. “Job one this fall is we have to get staffed and get stable in our operation because stability in our operation depends on getting staffed right,” said Jordan, a 33-year Southwest veteran who will take over for retiring CEO Gary Kelly in February. Southwest is 7,000 employees smaller than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, 11% of its workforce, according to federal data. “We’ve never had any issue attracting applicants and even we are finding it hard.”ĭallas-based Southwest Airlines is facing a challenge not unique in the business world at the moment, trying to ramp up operations after the early COVID-19 forced it to shed thousands of jobs. “We anticipate we are going to hire about 8,000 next year in all workgroups and again primarily on the frontlines,” said Jordan, the company’s executive vice president of corporate services at the Skift Global Forum in New York Thursday. ![]() Southwest Airlines will hire another 8,000 workers in 2022 year on top of the 5,000 it’s hoping to hire before the holiday season this year as the carrier looks to rebuild its network after the COVID-19 pandemic, incoming CEO Robert Jordan said Thursday. ![]()
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