"After a strong post-winter rebound in April, job growth in May slowed somewhat," said Carlos Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer of ADP.
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On Wednesday private payroll supplier ADP released its latest national employment report, which said 179,000 jobs were added in May, a significant slump after two consecutive months of growth over 200,000.
Friday's government jobs report followed a slightly less buoyant assessment of the jobs market from ADP, the US's largest payroll company.
On Tuesday ADP said that 212,000 jobs were added to the private sector in the month of February.
ADP, a payroll-outsourcing company, pays one in six private-sector workers in America.
For many companies, dealing with their payroll in-house and keeping track of ever-changing labour and tax regulations would be a waste of resources.Yet ADP is a pioneer of a phenomenon the entire industry has begun talking about: web services.
Economists have urged to focus stimulus on consumers, to help address global imbalances.The preliminary payroll employment report, from ADP, is out, and it has come in well below economist expectations.
Furthermore, there was a run of good data in the US, from a bigger gain than expected in the ADP employment survey to a jump in the Chicago PMI to 62.6.
One is the preliminary ADP jobs numbers for March.
THE Bureau of Labour Statistics just released its employment report for the month of February, and labour markets continue to hover in no-growth limbo.Non-farm payroll employment declined by 36,000 last month, slightly worse than January's revised loss of 26,000, and slightly worse than the February ADP report, which showed a decline in payrolls of 20,000.
