Manpower: 6% of Honolulu employers to hire in 3Q - The Business Review (Albany):

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From July to September, 6 percent of the companie interviewed in the Honolulu metro area plan to hire more while 11 percent expectf to reducetheir payrolls, according to the survet from Milwaukee-based (NYSE: MAN). Seventy-eighyt percent expect to maintain their current staff level s and 5 percent remain uncertain aboutyhiring plans. Hiring is expected to be a littlr lighter than in thesecond quarter, when 10 percenyt of companies surveyed planned to hire and 12 percenft expected to cut payrolls, said Manpower spokeswoman Mary Lou For the coming quarter, job prospects in the Honolulhu area appear best in wholesale and retail trade and leisure and Employers in durable goods manufacturing, nondurable goods manufacturing, professional and business services, education and health services and governmenft intend to cut Hiring in construction, transportation and utilities, financial activities and othe r services is expected to remain unchanged.
National survey results showed little change from thesecond quarter. Of the more than 28,000p employers surveyed across the 15 percent expect to increase their staffc levels during the third while 13 percent expect to reducetheir Sixty-seven percent expect no change in hiring and 5 percent are undecidedr about their third-quarter hiring plans. “The data shows continued hesitancyamongv employers,” said Jonas Prising, president of the Americas for “They are treading slowly and watching with guarderd optimism, hoping a few quarters of stabilitty will be the precursoe to the recovery.
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