Windsor saw a small decrease in both its unemployment rate and its labour participation rate in October.
The labour participation rate last month was 59.5 per cent according to Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey for October. That is down 0.2 per cent from September.
It measures the percentage of people who are actually working.
The unemployment rate, which measures the percentage of workers who are actively looking for a job, dipped to 6.9 per cent, a 0.4 per cent improvement over the month before.
The national rate changed minimally from 5.9 per cent to 5.8 per cent in October. While the Canadian economy added just 11,200 net jobs, a number too small to be statistically significant, Statistics Canada says fewer people were looking for work, and that pushed the percentage back down to its 40-year low.
The agency says job growth was virtually flat in Ontario where the unemployment rate was 5.7 per cent, and the labour participation rate was 64.3 per cent.
