It showed Saskatchewan’s unemployment rate was 7.3 per cent in February 2021, up 0.1 per cent from the previous month. Employment in Saskatchewan was 550,000 jobs, a 0.4 per cent improvement from the previous month. But compared to the same month last year, population grew 1,000, the labour force declined 18,300, and employment declining 23,000. Young, who is a small business owner herself, said, “We all know there are so many people struggling to get by right now and while vaccines are certainly a light at the end of the tunnel, people don t know if their job will be there to come back to. And what we re calling for today is we need a plan that helps small businesses rehire those that they ve had to lay off. And we need to support women getting back into the workplace. We know this pandemic has disproportionately impacted women.
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