Be Worried For Canada Job Market in 2015, Labor Indicators Show
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Canadian payroll employment dropped in November by the most in almost five years, a government report showed Thursday, adding to concern the outlook for the nation’s labor market is dimming as oil prices tumble.
The number of non-farm payroll employees fell by 33,000, Statistics Canada said, the most since August 2009, just after the last recession. The Ottawa-based agency also published revised labor force data Wednesday that cut the total number of 2014 job gains by more than a third.