While the jobless rate in Ontario and across Canada dipped last month, Windsor's remain virtually unchanged.
It remained at 10.6 per cent in May.
The Labour Participation Rate dipped 0.4 percentage points to 60.5 per cent.
Economists did not expect any miracles in this month's Labour Force Survey after the national economy shed 207-thousand jobs in April. The losses nationwide were not as great in May, but 68,000 net positions still disappeared.
Most of those losses were in Ontario and Nova Scotia and were part-time work as 54,000 jobs dried up.
For the first time since April 2020, there were job losses in manufacturing. Employment in that sector fell by 36,000 positions, while retail shed 29,000.
There were gains in transportation and warehousing and natural resources, but not enough to make up for other losses, so the national jobless rate rose 0.1 percentage points to 8.2 per cent.
Students are having a tough time finding work, but getting a job is not as difficult as last May. The unemployment rate for them was 23.1 per cent, down from 40 per cent last year. In 2019, before the pandemic, it was 13.7 per cent.
In Ontario, it rose 0.3 percentage points to 9.3 per cent in May.
May marked the second consecutive month of employment losses across Canada, but economists are optimistic about June. In Ontario, the Stay-at-Home order was lifted on June 2, and Phase One of the three-stage plan to reopen the economy begins June 14. Restrictions are easing in other provinces, and vaccination rates are rising.
The survey, by Statistics Canada, was taken from May 9 to May 15.
