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Steve Ide, from Nazareth, spoke with Dennis Costandinos a production supervisor at Lutron Corp. about a job for work at Lehigh Valley Fair Exhibition Center in Allentown early this fall. A Manpower survey says that three-quarters of employers do not expect to change the staffing levels for the first quarter of 2009.
The job market seems status quo in the short term.

That may not sound exciting, but if you're a glass half full person, means few people will lose their jobs in an already rough economy.

"That's actually a good thing in their eyes ... In fact the levels of maintenance personnel of it is good for those employees," said Becky Sokolowski, Manpower's regional director for the Lehigh Valley.


Manpower Inc. released a survey today shows that 75 percent of Lehigh Valley employers plan no staffing changes in the first quarter of 2010. That's just above the national rate of 73 percent.

Meanwhile, 12 percent expect cuts and only 10 percent plan to hire over the next three months.