The unemployment rate across Canada dropped to a new low of 5.1 per cent in May amid a jump in jobs for women, according to the latest Labour Force Survey results. Statistics Canada said Friday morning that the country added 40,000 jobs last month. The agency said that women across all age groups made up[…]
[ad_1] London’s downtown core is “growing in the right direction,” according to a recently-released report about its economic health and prosperity in 2016 and 2017. The 2017 State of the Downtown report, which is released every two years, says the core’s workforce grew by 2,000 jobs, the retail vacancy dropped from 7.9 per cent to[…]
[ad_1] Canada may be experiencing one of its biggest labour shortages in years but that doesn’t mean employees are seeing wage growth reflecting that talent crunch. Last week, a senior official with the Bank of Canada said one of the causes for the “puzzling” lack of wage growth could be that employers are struggling to[…]
[ad_1] U.S. job growth likely slowed in January after December’s weather-related outsized surge, but the pace of hiring probably remains fast enough to support the economy amid a darkening outlook resulting from government policy and cooling global economies. The Labor Department will publish its closely watched monthly employment report on Friday, two days after the Federal Reserve signaled[…]
[ad_1] Speaking outside the White House Friday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump bragged of the “tremendous” gains reported in the latest U.S. employment numbers, which he said were the result of his recent trade deal negotiations. [ad_2] Source link