1.55 million Canadians filed claims for unemployment insurance between March 16 and March 25, 2020 – Reuters
|While the coronavirus pandemic forces more and more businesses to shut Canadian jobless claims are under the market's microscope. Reuters News, citing government sources, has reported that 1.55 million Canadians filed claims for unemployment insurance between March 16 and March 25, 2020. That represents about 8 per cent of the labor force.
The new figure includes the 929,000 unemployment applications in the seven days through March 22, along with about an additional 620,000 claims in the first three days of last week, said the person, who spoke on condition they not be identified because the numbers aren’t public.
The sharp rise in lay offs highlights how abruptly the economy has seized up, forcing the government to ramp up a wage subsidy program this week to keep more workers on payrolls. On a daily basis, claims averaged about 207,000 in the last three days of the data, compared with about 133,000 in the seven days before that.
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