The employment situation improved in Canada last month as more sectors of the economy began to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Statistics Canada says the national labour market gained 419,000 jobs last month and the July unemployment rate was 10.9%, down from 12.3% in June.
Meanwhile, the local unemployment rate in the Kingston-Pembroke economic region, which the Quinte region is part of, was unchanged at 10% in July. In July of last year our region’s unemployment rate was just 5.1%.
Ontario’s unemployment rate dropped to 11.3% from 12.2% in June.
