Nationally the unemployment rate dropped 0.7 per cent to 7.5 as 303,000 more people found jobs.
Ontario reported the largest job gains (188,000) as the unemployment rate fell 1.7 per cent to 7.5.
“It was a very nice surprise to see all the job creation and the thousands of people returning to the labour force,” said Workforce WindsorEssex CEO Justin Falconer.
“It tells me people have either been recalled from layoff or they’re able to locate childcare or some other care that allowed them to return to work.
“These are remarkable numbers.”
There were 162,900 people employed in the Windsor Census Metropolitan Area last month. That region includes Windsor, Tecumseh, Lakeshore, LaSalle and Amherstburg.
WINDSOR, ONT. A new initiative is offering cash prizes of $11,000 to customers and food service businesses in Windsor and Essex County. The local support program, called ‘#DineYQG’, was launched on Monday by the Windsor-Essex Chamber of Commerce, Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island (TWEPI) and presenting sponsor CUPE 543. “#DineYQG will support locally owned restaurants, bakeries, coffee shops, take and bakes, wineries, breweries and distillers at a time when their businesses have been severely impacted by COVID-19,” said a news release from the chamber. Most local restaurants remain open for take-out, delivery or curbside orders, but no in-person dining is currently allowed under provincial lockdown guidelines.
WINDSOR, ONT. With COVID-19 amplifying the use of virtual care, the Windsor-Essex and Ontario Chambers of Commerce are calling to make it a permanent feature within the health system. Virtual visits have allowed more people across the province to access health care while not exposing themselves to COVID-19. A new report by the Windsor-Essex Chamber of Commerce and Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC), Realizing the Full Potential of Virtual Care in Ontario highlights the importance of making virtual care a permanent option. “We are now more virtually connected than ever before, and how Ontarians are interacting with the health care system reflects this fact,” Rocco Rossi president and CEO of the OCC, said in a Windsor-Essex Chamber news release. “We can t make the same mistakes we did with SARS, by only implementing temporary measures related to virtual care. The permanent integration of virtual care into our system could ensure all Ontarians can access timely and