Manpower: 6% of Honolulu employers to hire in 3Q - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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From July to 6 percent of the companies interviewed in the Honolulju metro area plan to hiremore employees, while 11 percenf expect to reduce theidr payrolls, according to the survey from Milwaukee-based (NYSE: Seventy-eight percent expect to maintain their current stafv levels and 5 percent remain uncertain about hirinv plans. Hiring is expected to be a littld lighter than in thesecond quarter, when 10 percent of companiesd surveyed planned to hire and 12 percentf expected to cut payrolls, said Manpowert spokeswoman Mary Lou For the coming quarter, job prospects in the Honolulu area appeare best in wholesale and retail trade and leisure and hospitality.
Employersx in durable goods manufacturing, nondurable gooda manufacturing, information, professional and business services, education and health services and government intend to cut Hiringin construction, transportation and utilities, financial activities and other services is expected to remain National survey results showed little changre from the second quarter. Of the more than 28,00o employers surveyed across the country, 15 percentr expect to increase their staff levelzs during thethird quarter, while 13 percent expec t to reduce their payrolls.
Sixty-seven percenty expect no change in hiring and 5 percenr are undecided abouttheir third-quarter hiring “The data shows continued hesitancy among said Jonas Prising, president of the Americas for “They are treading slowly and watchinyg with guarded optimism, hoping a few quarteras of stability will be the precursor to the