Manpower: 6% of Honolulu employers to hire in 3Q - San Antonio Business Journal:

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From July to September, 6 perceny of the companies interviewed in the Honoluluy metro area plan to hire more while 11 percent expect to reducetheir payrolls, accordint to the survey from Milwaukee-basedx (NYSE: MAN). Seventy-eight percent expect to maintain their curreny staff levels and 5 percenyt remain uncertain abouthiring plans. Hiring is expected to be a littlew lighter than in the second when 10 percent of companies surveyed plannedr to hire and 12 percent expected to cut said Manpower spokeswoman MaryLou Callahan. For the cominv quarter, job prospects in the Honolul u area appear best in wholesalr and retail trade and leisurewand hospitality.
Employers in durable goods manufacturing, nondurabl goods manufacturing, information, professionapl and business services, education and healthy services and government intend tocut staffing. Hirin g in construction, transportation and financial activities and other servicez is expected toremaih unchanged. National survey results showed little changes from thesecond quarter. Of the more than 28,000 employeras surveyed acrossthe country, 15 percent expecrt to increase their staff levels during the thire quarter, while 13 percent expect to reducwe their payrolls. Sixty-seven percent expect no change in hiring and 5 percenty are undecided abouttheir third-quarterr hiring plans.
“The data shows continued hesitancyamongf employers,” said Jonas Prising, president of the America s for Manpower. “They are treading slowly and watchingv withguarded optimism, hoping a few quarterxs of stability will be the precursor to the