Tag: London employment
Looking for a London-area job? It’s getting harder, new figures show
Landing a job in the London region is becoming increasingly difficult, with the number of available positions dropping as companies appear to be reining in hiring, new figures from Statistics Canada suggest. The number of job vacancies in the London area sat at 9,735 in the second quarter of the year, nearly 1,300 fewer than […]
London-area jobless rate spikes in glimpse of Donald Trump’s tariff toll
London’s unemployment rate jumped by half a percentage point in April as the local economy shed nearly 2,000 jobs and the toll of the U.S.-Canada trade war came into sharper focus. Statistics Canada reported Friday the jobless rate for the region, which includes St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and Middlesex counties, hit […]