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Jan 9, 2021 1:28 AM -
BC's Minister of Jobs, Economy Recovery and Innovation says this province is resisting the pandemic-linked trend to higher unemployment, but Ravi Kahlon says we are "not out of the woods," yet.
In a statement issued following release of Statistics Canada's monthly employment data, Kahlon says total employment has bounced back to nearly 99 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, but he says sectors like tourism and hospitality are still struggling.
He also says people of colour, both business owners and employees, continue to bear the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 slowdown.
Kahlon says BC added 24,000 full-time jobs across sectors such as construction and manufacturing in December but those gains were offset by the loss of about 20,000 part time jobs.
