{"id":103704,"date":"2025-08-28T18:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103704\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:31:07","slug":"canada-records-a-bump-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103704\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada records a bump vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kamil Karamali reports on new Statistics Canada data shows job vacancy numbers are up, in potentially positive news for the economy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">New employment data from Statistics Canada is shedding light on Canada\u2019s labour market with job vacancies rising in construction while weekly earnings increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In June, Canada recorded a bump in job vacancies to 492,000, partially offsetting the cumulative decline recorded in May and April (-37,100; -7.2 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Year over year, job vacancies declined by 59,200 (-10.7 per cent) in June, Statistics Canada reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Construction was the only sector to record a significant monthly change in the number of job vacancies.<\/p>\n<p>Job vacancies in construction increase in June<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Job vacancies in construction increased by 4,600 (+13.1 per cent) to 39,500, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/business\/economics\/2025\/07\/31\/job-vacancies-at-their-lowest-level-since-2017\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/business\/economics\/2025\/07\/31\/job-vacancies-at-their-lowest-level-since-2017\/\">partially offsetting the decline in May<\/a> (-5,400;-13.4 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The job vacancy rate in construction was 3.2 per cent in June, up from 2.9 per cent in May but down 0.4 percentage points from June 2024 (3.6 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>Average weekly earnings increase <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Average weekly earnings were up 3.7 per cent to $1,302 in June year-over-year following a 3.3 per cent increase in May. Month over month, average weekly earnings were up 0.7 per cent in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kamil Karamali reports on new Statistics Canada data shows job vacancy numbers are up, in potentially positive news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-103704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}