The last fortnight of data drew a Canadian economy in equilibrium: not accelerating, not contracting, simply absorbing what comes next. June's Labour Force Survey showed a market holding its breath, a modest 18,000 jobs added, the unemployment rate easing for a second month to 6.5 percent,
Faber Connect's acquisition of Edmonton's Prime Staffing is a small deal by dollar value, but it is one of the clearest examples yet of what happens when a software-first challenger absorbs a legacy staffing operation — and what incumbents should take from the result.
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Published monthly by the Association of Canadian Search, Employment & Staffing Services, the index tracks the billed hours reported by a panel of leading Canadian staffing firms — a sample large enough to represent roughly one-third of total industry sales, collected on ACSESS's behalf by Staffing Industry Analysts
A new survey of hiring decision-makers finds confidence climbing sharply — but the share of companies with unfillable open positions is climbing right along with it, a pairing that says more about the state of the labour market than either number alone.
Three-quarters of Canadian hiring managers — 74 percent
Canada's headline inflation rate fell to 2.8 percent in June, its slowest pace since April. But beneath the cooling numbers, the details that matter most to employers — wages, core prices, and where the next price shock might come from — tell a more complicated story about the year
The transformation of the modern workplace continues to provoke intense debate among executives, human resources professionals, and the broader workforce. While flexible working arrangements initially emerged as a necessary response to global disruptions, they have since solidified into a fundamental expectation for a vast segment of the labor market. Despite
Canada's labour market spent June holding its breath. The economy added a modest 18,000 jobs, the employment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage points to 60.8 percent, and the unemployment rate eased for a second straight month, to 6.5 percent, according to Statistics Canada'
Canadian consumers spent cautiously but consistently in June, according to new transaction data from RBC Economics, offering a snapshot of a household sector still absorbing higher energy costs while finding room for concerts, dinners out and new clothes. For staffing firms and their clients, the report is less a single
