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The Employment and Social Insurance Act ( French: Loi sur le placement et les assurances sociales) was a statute enacted by the Parliament of Canada in 1935 during the final months of the government of R.B. Bennett. The Act was intended to introduce a nationwide employment insurance scheme, and also to convince voters that Bennett was willing ...
Employment equity (Canada) Employment equity, as defined in federal Canadian law by the Employment Equity Act ( French: Loi sur l’équité en matière d’emploi ), requires federal jurisdiction employers to engage in proactive employment practices to increase the representation of four designated groups: women, people with disabilities ...
Economics. Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depending on the country and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time ...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a deep impact on the Canadian economy, leading it into a recession. The government's social distancing rules had the effect of limiting economic activity in the country. Companies started mass layoffs of workers, and Canada's unemployment rate was 13.5 percent in May 2020, the highest it has been since 1976.
Unemployment in Ontario is the measure indicating the number of Ontarians "without work, are available for work, and are actively seeking work". [1] The rate of unemployment is measured by Statistics Canada using a Labour Force Survey. In September 2018 approximately 452,900 people were deemed unemployed in Ontario.
Unemployment in Canada reached 27% at the depth of the Depression in 1933. In 1929, the U.S. unemployment rate averaged 3%. WPA poster promoting the benefits of employment. In the US, the Works Progress Administration (1935–43) was the largest make-work program.
The list of Canadian provinces by unemployment rate are statistics that directly refer to the nation's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate. Below is a comparison of the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by province/territory, sortable by name or unemployment rate. Data provided by Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey.
The economy of Canada is a highly developed mixed economy, [34] [35] [36] with the world's tenth-largest economy as of 2023, and a nominal GDP of approximately US$ 2.117 trillion. [4] Canada is one of the world's largest trading nations, with a highly globalized economy. [37]