Unemployment fell nationally and provincially in November but made a relatively significant jump up in the Bay of Quinte in the same month.
Statistics Canada says the economy added 154,000 jobs in November as the labour market showed more signs it’s returning to pre-pandemic levels.
The unemployment rate fell to 6% last month compared with 6.7% in October.
That brought the headline rate to within 0.3 percentage points of the 5.7% recorded in February 2020 just before the pandemic struck.
Provincially the Labour Force Report shows that in Ontario unemployment fell .6 percentage points from 7.0% to 6.4% in November.
Despite positive gains on unemployment both federally and provincially, the same cannot be said for the Bay of Quinte.
The region listed as Belleville, which actually represents Belleville, Quinte West, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and Stirling-Rawdon, shows that in November unemployment jumped 1.1 percentage points up from 6.8% in October to 7.9% in November.
Meantime in the Bay of Quinte the employment rate stayed steady only changing by 0.1 percentage point, moving from 50.9% to 50.8%.
You can view the full labour report on the StatCan website.
With files from The Canadian Press.
