Windsor continued to make employment gains in July as the economy began to recover from COVID-19-related shutdowns earlier this year.
Another 10,200 people returned to work last month on top of the 14,000 who were back on the job in June.
That pushed the local unemployment rate down 2.7 percentage points to 12.5 per cent from the month before.
The increase in employment is reflected in the Labour Participation Rate too. It climbed 2.1 percentage points to 56.1 per cent.
Statistics Canada released its annual Labour Market Survey Friday. It was taken between July 12 and July 18, and may not reflect the loss of the third shift at the Windsor Assembly Plant.
Across Canada, the jobless rate for July was 10.9 per cent, a dip of 1.4 percentage points, as the national economy added 419,000 jobs. The agency said July marked three consecutive months of expected gains. In June, 953,000 jobs were added, while 290,000 were in May.
The figures show employment is now 1.3 million positions shy of pre-COVID-19 levels.
However, most of the gains across the country were in part-time work. Of the 419,000 positions, 345,000 were in part-time employment. Full-time employment grew by just 73,000.
In Ontario, where the jobless rate fell by 0.9 percentage points to 11.3 per cent, virtually all gains were in part-time employment.
The provincial Labour Participation Rate grew 0.7 percentage points to 63.4 per cent.
There are still 412,000 Canadians working fewer hours than they did before the pandemic, but the rate fell to 18.8 per cent. Another 400,000 are still working from home, but that number fell too. About 2.3 million Canadians say they are still feeling the impact of March's shutdown.
For younger workers and those in the South Asian, Arab, and Black communities in Canada, the struggle to regain losses due to the pandemic continues.
Statistics Canada says the youth unemployment rate is still 17.4 per cent lower than February. Among the South Asian population, unemployment is 17.8 per cent. It is 17.3 per cent for the Arab community, and 16.8 per cent for Blacks.
The agency said it was impossible to measure unemployment in other ethnic groups with the size of the sample taken last month.
The survey, taken between July 12 and July 18, also measured how many Canadians are still collecting the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit. About 18.4 per cent is just as the federal government starts to transition those on CERB onto Employment Insurance.
Teleworking parents were asked if they worried about childcare as more of them return to the workplace. More than a third of parents said they were, and about 56.1 per cent of mothers admitted that concern.
