Amazon posts jobs for SC as tax break starts

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Amazon wasted no time in posting job openings for a South Carolina operation as a tax break for the company became law without Gov. Nikki Haley's signature.

The company issued a statement early Wednesday that it has posted hundreds of job openings for a plant in Lexington County.

Haley had opposed the plan to make the company exempt from collecting South Carolina's sales tax in exchange for a promise of 2,000 jobs. But she had said she would let the measure become law without her signature. The deadline was midnight Tuesday.

The company said Wednesday the jobs will include medical and dental coverage for workers and a number of other employee benefits.

The new law says Amazon doesn't have to collect sales tax from South Carolina online shoppers until 2016.