More people on employment insurance in Windsor
While Windsor holds the highest unemployment rate in Canada, it also has the one of the highest growing rates of people on employment insurance, according to Statistics Canada.
While Windsor holds the highest unemployment rate in Canada, it also has the one of the highest growing rates of people on employment insurance, according to Statistics Canada.
While there was no change in the overall percentage of people receiving employment insurance in Ontario from March to April, the number of people on EI in Windsor went up 10.5 per cent.
In April, 2015 Ontario had 147,100 people on EI.
Previously, Statistics Canada told CBC those temporarily laid off at Windsor Assembly Plant are considered unemployed and do affect the unemployment rate.
Those nearly 5,000 workers started heading back to work during the last week of May.