Hours of First Shift Scheduled 43.5 for November 2014 means average shop scheduling almost 10% overtime

  The PMPA Business Trends Report Sales index for November plummeted 23 points from 132 to 109, a drop of almost 17%. Here are 5 reasons why we are unconcerned by what most would call a panic-worthy drop. The November value of 109 actually “just happens to be” the arithmetic average of the index for the last…