Manufacturing hiring slows

This also represents a deceleration of hiring from March, when 58.0% of manufacturers said that they planned to increase hiring, compared to 8.9% planning to decrease. Net hiring rate for March was 49.1%, suggesting that the pace of net hiring has slowed over the course of the past month (and not just the past year) in the manufacturing sector.

However, it does appear to be getting easier to recruit new manufacturing workers. In March 2012, 18.3% of respondents said that it was more difficult to recruit. In this latest survey, 16.1% continue to see hiring as a challenge.

READ FULL STORY by Chad Moutray, chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.

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