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Alberta payroll employment plunges from April to May

by Mario Toneguzzi | Jul 30, 2020

The largest payroll employment decline in May in Canada was in accommodation and food services (-116,500, or -16.9 per cent)

TD Economics report says Alberta economy will contract by 5.5 per cent due to the coronavirus outbreak and collapsing oil prices

Of Canada’s two million casual/temporary workers, 93% of casual employees and 85% of those on temporary contracts are in the services sector

Province’s GDP will contract by 2.8 per cent this year as a result of challenging global forces but rebound with 2.5 per cent growth in 2021

The unemployment rate in Alberta, sitting at 7.2 per cent, will likely increase due to the coronavirus and a decline in oil prices

In the Edmonton region, 500 jobs were created in February but the capital city was down 7,500 jobs from a year ago, says Statistics Canada

In Alberta, 50,600 people received regular EI benefits in December, an increase of 2.7 per cent from the previous month, says Statistics Canada

This decrease was concentrated in part-time work as the unemployment rate in the province rose to 7.3% from 7.0% the previous month

Notably more beneficiaries who last worked in manufacturing and utilities, and in natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations

Calgary Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and Dave McCorkill were two of the speakers at the Power Network Group breakfast in Calgary

Court Ellingson, vice-president of Strategy for Calgary Economic Development, talks to Calgary’s Business about the city’s struggling labour market

The unemployment for the Indigenous population is almost double the 6.7 per cent rate for the non-Indigenous population

Some workers returned back to work while others exhausted their regular benefits, stated Statistics Canada