{"id":38846,"date":"2015-01-17T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T07:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38846"},"modified":"2015-01-17T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T07:34:05","slug":"sears-offering-jobs-discounts-to-workers-affected-by-target-exit-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/17\/sears-offering-jobs-discounts-to-workers-affected-by-target-exit-from-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Sears offering jobs, discounts to workers affected by Target exit from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38882\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_189193784.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38882\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_189193784.jpg\" alt=\"Sears Department Store in Toronto (Niloo \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_189193784.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_189193784-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sears Department Store in Toronto (Niloo \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; Sears Canada is reaching out to workers affected by the exit of American retailer Target from the Canadian market.<\/p>\n<p>Target announced on Thursday that it will close 133 stores across the country by early June, with 17,600 employees losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Sears says it&#8217;s extending a special offer to Target Canada employees and is encouraging those interested in job opportunities at Sears to visit its website.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning early next week, Sears says the site will publish information on special events regarding career opportunities such as local job fairs across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, Sears says there will also be an open invitation to Target Canada head office employees for a meet-and-greet with Sears executives and human resources experts on Jan. 21 in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer also says it will offer affected Target Canada employees the Sears Canada employee discount for a period of 16 weeks, beginning on Jan. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Sears Canada is reaching out to workers affected by the exit of American retailer Target from the Canadian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":38882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}