Canada created a surprisingly buoyant 21,600 jobs in November. It’s true many of the jobs were part-time positions. This may have something to do with the practice of big companies, like Dollarama for example, employing people in a “full-time part-time” fashion. Workers have a steady job work but the employer doesn’t have to pay the benefits stipulated for full-time workers. The unemployment rate however continued to sit at 6.9 per cent for the third straight month. The jump in employment was almost twice the 12,000 positions that economists had expected. They still say the economy is fragile.
