There’s improvement to report in Louisiana’s job market. So says Ava Cates, Secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, who notes some of the improvement that’s taken place since Hurricane Ida struck, and despite COVID-19. “For seasonally-adjusted figures we added 8,500 jobs over the month and almost 35,000 jobs over the year,” said Cates.
She says the November employment report shows a slight decline from October, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate now at 5.1 percent.
Cates says the job gains are being seen in a broad range of industries. “She says, “Uh, of course health care, transportation and the like, leisure and hospitality…we even saw a small gain this month in mining and logging.”
Secretary Cates says the seasonally-adjusted total nonfarm gain of 85-hundred jobs last month to one-million-365-thousand-300 jobs is the highest since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID pandemic, and she says there are still more people to put back to work. “The world of work is changing. We’re seeing more people go into business. More people reprioritize and to say how am I going to have that work-life balance,” said Cates.
The unemployment rate has dropped for eight consecutive months with an over-the-year employment gain.
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