With the COVID-19 pandemic, every state dawned on a collapsing economy because of the lockdown with the aim of securing lives at the expense of a country’s economy. However, now that the pandemic is almost tamed, the majority of countries are slowly but steadily stabilising their economy. In Canada, the state is on its way to full economic recovery, since employment is rising and the cases of unemployment slowly dropping to the pre-pandemic level.
In November, employers in Canada added 154,000 jobs to the economy, which preceded Canada’s analysts’ prediction of 38,000. These statistics were closer to October levels but the gains pushed employment levels of Canada to a notch higher compared to pre-pandemic levels. Additionally, unemployment dropped by 6% which ranges within the 0.3 percentage points of what was experienced in February 2020.
Canada’s Labour Force Survey released statistics that showed that labor market conditions during weeks 7 to 13 had risen compared to other public health measures like proof of vaccination which was at the same value as in October.
Labor shortages persist despite employment gains
The urge to hire in November was initiated by the private sector both in part-time positions and full time. Nonetheless, Canada is still short of laborers across all sectors such as hospitality, healthcare, and retail. As per September, different employers had posted approximately one million job vacancies countrywide.
Since the majority of the government’s COVID-19 financial aid to citizens ended in late October, it could have urged people to take the job offers to gain their daily bread. Some of these measures of financial aid included the Canadian Recovery Benefit, which had been designed to make people not go to work. A report made by The Conference Board of Canada suggested that a lack of wage growth was even much disincentive majorly on the low-wage service industries.
