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Issue No. 33 - February/March 2007

Jobs growth stalls as manufactuing cuts bite

SA employers are getting edgy about taking on more staff according to the latest Hudson Report on employment expectations.

Unhealthy manufacturing prospects and government job-shedding have driven our expectations to the lowest level in the nation.

Hudson’s survey - 7104 nationally – shows 34.7% of SA employers expected to hire permanent employees in Q107, against 6.8% expecting to reduce staff for a net result of 27.9%. That’s a negligible increase over Q406.

South Australian GM for Hudson, Phil Morton, said the low sentiment level was due to the weaker outlook for the manufacturing industry, with only 12.5% of manufacturers expecting to hire for the lowest level since April 1999.

“Lower sentiment follows major car manufacturing sites extending the Christmas and New Year holiday breaks and reductions in production quotas,” Phil says.

“There is a general downturn across many manufacturing markets, as the transfer of operations to Chin...

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