Study: Few Birmingham firms to hire in 3Q - Nashville Business Journal:

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Between July and September, 71 percent of locakl companies expect to maintain their curren t staff levels and another 15 perceny have plans to shed workers from their payrolld in the third quarterof 2009, the survey found. About 13 percenr of businesses in the regio are looking to expand their work which is about the same pace as thesecondx quarter. “The hiring activity is expected to be consistent to the previouds quarter when 13 percent of companies surveyed planned to increasw staff levels and 16 percent expectec tocut payrolls,” said Manpower spokesma Chad Brewer.
Nationally, out of more than 28,000p employers surveyed, 15 percent expect to increased their staff levels duringthe three-month while 13 percent expect to reduce their which results in a net employmentg outlook of 2 percent. For the cominbg quarter, job prospects in the Birmingham-Hoover metro area appea best inwholesale & retail financial activities, leisure, hospitalitu and government. Employers in construction, durable goods transportation & utilities, information, professional & business servicesw and education & health services plan to reducestaffinvg levels, while hiring in nondurable goods manufacturing and otherf services is expected to remain unchanged.