Unemployment rates in Canada has been raising recently due to many reasons. According to the Winnipeg Free Press, recently, in Quebec, services jobs ditched a big 18,600 workers who were part-time employees. This has not only been happening in Quebec, but in other provinces as well. Manitoba has also let go of 6,500 part-time jobs in the past one month, which pushed the unemployment rate from 5.2% (October) to 5.5%.
Statistics Canada showed that there were at least 212,000 more Canadians working last year in 2010 at the this time than there is now, which is a huge difference. In my opinion, laying off part-timers may be beneficial to the company, but it is very unfair for the part-timers, as I would 99% be a part-timer as well if I were to be hired. It is already starting to get harder getting jobs, and people are laying more and more people off their part-time jobs, which is really unfair. All these laying off is creating a large handful of Canadians who are attempting to earn money for a living, or to pay rent or pay educational fees. So firing the part-timers may be effecting other aspects of their lives as well, but of course, the companies do not pay attention at all to these other negative side-effects.In conclusion, due to the sudden laying off of people during this time of year, has caused the Canadian unemployment rate to jump from 7.3% to 7.4%, which is a big jump within 1-2 months.
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