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Labour Market Bulletin Kingston-Pembroke Area
Labour Market Bulletin, First Quarter 2006
An Analysis of the Kingston/Pembroke
Area Labour Market
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An overview of the Kingston/Pembroke Area, including Arnprior, Brockville, Carleton Place, Gananoque, Kingston, Pembroke, Perth, Prescott, Renfrew and Smiths Falls.
In the Kingston-Quinte-Pembroke Region, labour market conditions were slightly weaker in the first quarter of 2006 than in the previous quarter. Employment and the labour force also contracted, allowing unemployment to increase. Conditions were also considerably weaker than those recorded in the first quarter of 2005, with a net job loss of roughly three percent.
Although labour market estimates for the Kingston CMA were generally stable in the first quarter of 2006, small changes combined to cause a sharp increase in the unemployment rate from last quarter. Compared to the first quarter of 2005, however, conditions were stronger with the labour force expanding and unemployment declining.
Labour market conditions in the Cornwall-Brockville-Smiths Falls area weakened in the first quarter of 2006, with employment falling and the unemployment rate jumping from 5.9% in the fourth quarter of 2005 to 7.8%. Year over year, however, the unemployment rate fell from 8.4%.
Highlights:
- Bell Canada laid off 256 people when Kingston call centre closed
- NuComm in Brockville announced 200 call centre positions
- Procter and Gamble in Brockville announced 80 new jobs
- Hart, a new retail outlet in Arnprior, hired 40 people
- Forty-five people were laid off from Hershey in Smiths Falls
The complete Labour Market Bulletin, including these Highlights, is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, print version (size: 104 kb)
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