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Seasonal hiring at Amazon: 15,500

Seattle – Amazon.com said Friday it is hiring more than 15,500 people to fill temporary holiday jobs at shipping centers around the country, more than it hired last year.

Many retailers are increasing their hiring this season. Kohl’s Corp., Macy’s Inc., Toys R Us, Pier 1 Imports Inc., American Eagle Outfitters Inc. and others plan to hire more temporary holiday workers.

Retailers will add between 550,000 and 650,000 jobs this holiday season, according to a forecast from the national outsourcing firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. Last year retailers added 501,400 jobs.

Associated Press

STCU reports attempted scam

A Spokane credit union said scores of local consumers Friday reported a phone scam aimed at tricking them to reveal debit and credit card information.

The STCU phone center was inundated with calls from credit union members and some nonmembers who reported receiving official-sounding automated phone calls that supposedly come from STCU.

More than 100 callers contacted STCU about the phone calls Friday morning, spokesman Dan Hansen said.

The calls inform the recipients that “Your debit card (or credit card) has been deactivated.” They are asked to provide their debit or credit card number, PIN and expiration date, Hansen said.

The calls appear to be blanketing the region at random, as many of the recipients are not STCU members, he added.

STCU never calls its members asking for credit or debit card information, Hansen said.

Scott Maben

Change to engine follows air incident

London – Engine maker Rolls-Royce Group PLC on Friday said it would replace a component in Trent 900 engines following its investigation into the cause of an engine failure last week on an Airbus A380 aircraft.

The incident has been embarrassing for Rolls-Royce and costly for shareholders.

Rolls-Royce said its initial findings into the Nov. 4 incident on a plane operated by Qantas Airways Ltd. concluded that the issue was specific to the Trent 900 engine, as previously reported, and was confined to a particular component in the turbine area, which caused an oil fire that led to the release of the intermediate pressure turbine disc.

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