Slight increase in Windsor unemployment numbers

Windsor's unemployment numbers saw a slight increase in November, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada.

Jobless numbers reached 5.7 per cent last month, bumping up from 5.3 per cent in October. Windsor remains lower than the provincial unemployment rate of 6.3 per cent and the national rate of 6.8 per cent.

• Stores in Windsor cashing in on low unemployment rate

The rate in Windsor is a far cry from November last year when the city still carried the unofficial moniker of Canada's unemployment capitol.

At that time, the jobless rate reached 10 per cent.

• Windsor's unemployment rate up to 10%

The region has seen a steady decline in unemployment numbers in the past year.