Are skittish consumers hurting Southern California’s job market?

Southern California shed workers in March as consumer-centric employers trimmed staffing.
Bosses in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties had 7.95 million workers in March – a decrease of 4,500 in a month and 12,600 over 12 months, says new data from the Employment Development Department. The job figures released on Friday, April 18 are not adjusted for seasonal swings.
A troubling sign was that two big employment niches tied to shopping were cutting workers in March.