The Paris Independent
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December 9, 2023
EMPLOYMENT NEWS Local job market remains strong in November BRANTFORD (Dec. 1, 2023) – some of our local job numbers look Retail salesperson was the No. 1 job Brantford-Brant’s unemployment better, but others don’t, frankly,” advertised in November on Grand rate inched up last month, despite Dalton said. “Our unemployment Erie Jobs, the job board operated by adding several hundred jobs, but it rate in November 2022 was worse the Workforce Planning Board. remains one of the lowest in the at 5.9%, but more people were Close to 200 of the 1,800 jobs were province. participating in the labour force and in retail, while another 100 were for November’s local jobless rate were employed. Looking just at the shelf stockers and order fillers. climbed to 4.2%, up from 4.1% the jobless rate doesn’t tell the whole Other top jobs included home previous month, even though story.” support workers and material employment grew by an estimated Dalton said that the employment handlers. 500 people, the latest labour force rate a year ago was almost 3% The Workforce Planning Board is survey from Statistics Canada higher than last month, and there one of 26 non-profit organizations showed. That increase in jobs were fewer people described as Not in Ontario that play a leadership caused the local employment rate to in the Labour Force: neither role in labour force planning. The improve slightly to 63.3%. employed nor unemployed. Workforce Planning Board is Canada continues to add jobs but “But 2022 saw incredible, hard-to- funded in part by the Government that hasn’t kept up with the beat job growth in our area, to put it of Canada and the Government of country’s population growth. in perspective. The 2023 year hasn’t Ontario. November saw employment seen as many gains in employment, increase by 25,000 jobs across but the numbers have been Need some help getting back into the workforce? Try the Workforce Canada, but the unemployment rate improving recently and we hope Planning Board of Grand Erie’s cover still increased by 0.1% percentage that continues into next year,” she letter and resume builder tools points to 5.8% due to 78,000 said. online. Click on the graphic below to working age people joining the get started! labour pool. Ontario’s unemployment rate fell by 0.1% to 6.1%. The Brantford area continues to boast the lowest jobless rate compared to neighbouring communities, and is the second lowest in the province, second only to Peterborough’s impressive 2.3%. Yet, while local employment numbers have been trending upwards over the last few months, there’s still room for improvement, said Danette Dalton, executive director of the Workforce Planning Board of Grand Erie. “Compared to this time last year,
