NEWBURGH – The seventh annual Council of Industry of Southeastern New York job survey shows business owners expect some job growth in 2016.
The survey, conducted with the Marist College Bureau of Economic Research and School of Management along with Ethan Allen Workforce Solutions, engaged 32 companies with some 5,000 reported employees.
Council Executive Director Harold King said most manufacturing companies
anticipate some new hiring, but there is a caveat.
“The cost of healthcare continues to rise and impact the companies and there is also and it is also impacting their employees more and more as costs are unfortunately being shifted to them more and more and also we see the skill gap becoming more and more prominent with almost 80 percent of the companies acknowledging some difficulty hiring people, finding the right match of people for jobs,” King said.
As the number of employees falls, the type of job becomes more involved and skilled, he said. But, there are still jobs available for machinists and welders, but also programmers, engineers and chemical engineers, King said.
