{"id":15261,"date":"2023-04-10T21:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T04:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontarios-employment-and-labour-rates-increase\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T21:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T04:25:26","slug":"ontarios-employment-and-labour-rates-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontarios-employment-and-labour-rates-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s employment and labour rates increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">April 10, 2023, Ontario \u2013 The Ontario Construction Secretariat reported that employment throughout the province<\/span> increased from 567,100 to 572,300 from February to March 2023. Labour force grew by an even larger amount from 602,400 to 622,700, resulting in an increase in the unemployment rate.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment in Ontario construction rose to 8.1 per cent in March, sitting above the overall Ontario unemployment rate of 5.4 per cent. This is the highest it\u2019s been since January 2021, when it was 10.1 per cent, and similar to the pre-pandemic March 2019 unemployment rate of 8.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Ontario Construction Secretariat reported that w<\/span>hen looking at historic data outside of the pandemic era, the unemployment rate in construction tends to be highest from January-March.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=761779333850340&version=v2.0\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/canadian-contractor\/ontarios-employment-and-labour-rates-increase\/1003292346\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ontarios-employment-and-labour-rates-increase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 10, 2023, Ontario \u2013 The Ontario Construction Secretariat reported that employment throughout the province increased from 567,100 to 572,300 &#8230; <a title=\"Ontario\u2019s employment and labour rates increase\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontarios-employment-and-labour-rates-increase\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ontario\u2019s employment and labour rates increase\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-15261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-contractor","tag-canada","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}