Statistics Canada has released numbers demonstrating that approximately 30 million work hours were lost across Canada in November due to seasonal flu and H1N1.

The figures also showed that about 1.5 million Canadian between the ages of 15 and 69, which works out to be about 9% of the work force in that range of years, were absent from their employment due to such illnesses, with an average of 19.6 hours lost per worker. read more »

Prior information released by Statistics Canada in the last few months of 2009 suggested that the Canadian labour market had found a way to sustain the rate of job cutting by Canadian employers. In November of 2009, the data indicated that Canadian employers created approximately 79,000 new jobs for Canadians. However, the figures for December of 2009 were quite different. read more »