{"id":13091,"date":"2021-02-02T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/?p=13091"},"modified":"2021-02-02T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:49:58","slug":"january-2021-lfs-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2021\/02\/02\/january-2021-lfs-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"January Labour Force Survey Preview: Will Employment Take Another Hit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The second wave of the pandemic made a clear imprint on the Canadian labour market as 2020 came to a close. Vulnerable parts of the service sector, namely accommodation and food services, as well as arts and recreation, started to slide in October, and in December were joined by \u201cother services,\u201d which include areas of personal care, like hair salons. At the same time, the setback to overall employment wasn\u2019t too severe, in part because sectors not as directly exposed to the pandemic continued to add jobs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This balance will once again be tested in the January Labour Force Survey (LFS). Restrictions on activities have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/enhanced-public-health-measures.aspx#restrictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expanded to new regions<\/a> since the early-December LFS reference week, while COVID-19 cases in some provinces <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&amp;time=2020-03-01..latest&amp;country=~CAN&amp;region=World&amp;casesMetric=true&amp;interval=smoothed&amp;perCapita=true&amp;smoothing=7&amp;pickerMetric=total_cases&amp;pickerSort=desc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surged after the holidays<\/a>. As a result, employment in pandemic-exposed services could take another hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key question is whether they\u2019ll be joined by other areas of the economy, namely retail and wholesale trade. Canada-wide employment in the retail and wholesale industry ticked up in December, building on solid gains over the first part of the recovery, despite restrictions on in-store shopping in the Toronto area implemented in late-November. With the holiday shopping season over, and these rules expanded to the rest of Ontario, what happens to retail jobs bears close attention, especially given the industry\u2019s overall size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, there are a number of reasons for optimism about the Canadian labour market this year, namely the eventual roll-out of vaccines, and the solid rebound in employer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2021\/02\/02\/job-postings-through-jan-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">job postings on Indeed<\/a> from their lows last spring. Unfortunately, these tailwinds are still on the horizon, as Canadians trudge through the rest of the winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evolving second wave will once again be front and center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":14062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"recruiter-hub-blocks.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mwm_category":[715],"post_topic":[],"post_content_type":[],"post_duration":[],"post_actions":[],"post_franchise":[],"post_mwm_author":[670],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_mwm_category-state-of-the-labour-market","post_mwm_author-bbernard"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>January Labour Force Survey Preview: Will Employment Take Another Hit? 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