Fewer people were working last month
There were 1,100 fewer Yukoners working in July of this year compared to the same time in 2014.
There were 1,100 fewer Yukoners working in July of this year compared to the same time in 2014.
The Yukon Bureau of Statistics released its most recent employment figures last Friday.
Last month, there were 19,000 people working, down from 20,100 a year earlier.
Nearly half of those unemployed workers are in the goods-producing sector. That is primarily mining and construction in the Yukon, bureau spokesperson Gary Brown said Tuesday.
Though it seems like a large number in this circumstance, the number of workers in the territory has been dropping throughout the year.
“There’s been a steady decline over that period,” said Brown.
The job losses have been primarily due to the slowdown in mining, he noted.
The territory’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has fallen by 0.5 percentage points since June, now sitting at 7.8 per cent.
Because the bureau rounds the numbers in the adjusted figures, this is not a large change.
“In a small jurisdiction like this, it doesn’t take much to swing 0.5 percentage points,” Brown said.
Since July 2014, the unemployment rate has risen four per cent, from 3.8 per cent.
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Josey Wales on Aug 15, 2015 at 9:01 am
Our industry here IS chair warming and email joke distribution.
Given the absolute FLOOD of socially engineered labour imported into this welfare state...surprised there are not a few thousand more outta work YUKON FOLK in those stats. Mind you one cannot count those who gave up trying to find gainful never mind lucrative employment.
7.8% eh...I say 10%... expect it will get faaar worse.
...true north strong and free my a**, we are weak and dependent...like a ultimate FAILED socialist state.
Sorry about the redundancy in the last line...naaah I'm not.
Well Canada it was nice.....Canadastan coming soon.