More people looking for work in region year-over-year as country’s unemployment rate lowers
Employment across Canada made greater than expected gains in September, adding 63,000 positions, and edging the unemployment rate down marginally to 5.9 per cent.
The uptick also offset job losses in August, Statistics Canada said Friday in its monthly data dump of labour numbers. The gains come heavily on the back of part-time employment, up 80,000 positions. The number of full-time positions declined by 16,900.
August saw a net decline of more than 51,000 positions, pushing the unemployment rate to six per cent. Year-over-year, employment is up by 220,000 jobs or 1.2 per cent.
Ontario and British Columbia were home to the greatest increases in employment, while it remained little changed in other provinces, the agency said.