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April Labour Force Survey April Job Losses Total 207,000Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey for April 2021 reveals that the number of available jobs countrywide fell by 207,000 (-1.1%) compared with the previous month. Employment declined in both full-time (-129,000; -0.8%) and part-time (-78,000; -2.3%) work. The number of employed people working less than half their usual hours increased by 288,000 to a total of over one million workers. The number of people searching for work increased +67,000 (+4.9%) while those on temporary layoff was up +57,000 (+37.6%). This pushed the official unemployment rate higher by 0.6 percentage points to 8.1 per cent, a total of 1,640,300 workers declared "officially" unemployed. The official unemployment rate compares the number of Canadians working with the total number in what Statcan views as the "active" workforce. The "active" workforce is the sum of workers working and those not working but who looked for a job at some time during the month. Canadians aged 15 or older who are not working and did not look for a job during the month for whatever reason, such as caring for their children, are not considered part of the official workforce. Statcan writes, "The number of Canadians who wanted a job but did not look for one rose by 54,000 (+11.0%) in April. As a result, the adjusted unemployment rate -- which includes this group along with those who meet the definition of unemployed -- was 10.5 per cent, up 0.8 percentage points from the previous month." Hours worked in April were down 3.9 per cent compared with the February 2020 pre-pandemic levels. The totality of the situation continues the substantial loss of new value workers could produce and make available to themselves, the people, economy and society, if they were fully mobilized and producing.
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