In a front-page ad in the Boston Globe Thursday, Market Basket has announced the company is hiring.Click to watch News 9's coverage.The ad says the company is looking for store directors and assistant directors in eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire.Click to view the ad.The company will hold job fairs for current employees on Monday and Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. at Market Basket Andover IT Computer Center on 340 Balladvale Street in Andover, Massachusetts.A job fair will be held for the general public next Wednesday from 1-8 p.m.The news comes one day after the chief executives of Market Basket issued a statement saying employees who have stayed off the job to demand the return of fired CEO Arthur T. Demoulas must return to work by Monday.The statement said the workers can return without penalty. It also said the company will begin seeking replacements for those who don't.But workers News 9 has spoken with during the protests said they have been rallying during their off-hours and working their shifts. Some have said they're worried about getting fired.Labor and employment lawyer James Reidy, of Sheehan, Phinney, Bass and Green, said that as long as employees keep fighting for better working conditions for the company as a whole, their actions are protected under the National Labor Relations Act, despite the fact the workers are not unionized.Meanwhile, the board of directors is still considering Arthur T. Demoulas' bid to buy the company. There is no word on when the board might come to a decision on the bid to buy out the company.Click to learn more about Market Basket through the years.

In a front-page ad in the Boston Globe Thursday, Market Basket has announced the company is hiring.

Click to watch News 9's coverage.

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The ad says the company is looking for store directors and assistant directors in eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Click to view the ad.

The company will hold job fairs for current employees on Monday and Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. at Market Basket Andover IT Computer Center on 340 Balladvale Street in Andover, Massachusetts.

A job fair will be held for the general public next Wednesday from 1-8 p.m.

The news comes one day after the chief executives of Market Basket issued a statement saying employees who have stayed off the job to demand the return of fired CEO Arthur T. Demoulas must return to work by Monday.

The statement said the workers can return without penalty. It also said the company will begin seeking replacements for those who don't.

But workers News 9 has spoken with during the protests said they have been rallying during their off-hours and working their shifts. Some have said they're worried about getting fired.

Labor and employment lawyer James Reidy, of Sheehan, Phinney, Bass and Green, said that as long as employees keep fighting for better working conditions for the company as a whole, their actions are protected under the National Labor Relations Act, despite the fact the workers are not unionized.

Meanwhile, the board of directors is still considering Arthur T. Demoulas' bid to buy the company. There is no word on when the board might come to a decision on the bid to buy out the company.

Click to learn more about Market Basket through the years.