{"id":182654,"date":"2025-06-14T02:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182654\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T02:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:33:10","slug":"signs-of-weakness-in-canadian-automotive-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182654\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of weakness in Canadian automotive employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2_Signs-of-weakness-in_1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2_Signs-of-weakness-in_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As employment in Canada continues to be closely watched for signs of U.S.-tariff impacts, DesRosiers Automotive Consultants pulled its first quarter data to review the automotive situation \u2014 and found that overall employment was down slightly in March 2025 by 0.2% from March 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin specific sub-sectors, employment figures were a mixed bag,\u201d said DAC in its update. \u201cThe embattled motor vehicle parts and accessories manufacturing industry saw a 2.5% decrease for March with automotive parts and accessories stores also seeing a small decrease of 0.6%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, motor vehicle manufacturing was up 1.1% compared to a very weak March 2024. At that time, the sector was 8.5% below March 2023 as a result of plant specific retooling. And new vehicle sales were strong for the first quarter, thanks in part to auto dealers experiencing a 1.4% employment increase for March 2025. The automotive repair and maintenance sector, consistently stable, was up 1.7%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The results of the second quarter may more broadly show the impacts of the trade war, as April and May revealed \u201cworrying results\u201d for the Canadian economy. Overall unemployment reached 7 per cent, and the broader manufacturing category saw notable job losses, according to DAC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe automotive sector will likely see more job losses in the Q2 data and without a resolution to the trade war soon, at least some of the ground won back post-pandemic will once again be yielded,\u201d said Andrew King, Managing Partner at DAC, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2_Signs-of-weakness-in_1200.jpg\" class=\"ss-hidden-pin-image\" alt=\"\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/canadianautodealer.ca\/2025\/06\/signs-of-weakness-in-canadian-automotive-employment\/\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2_Signs-of-weakness-in_1200.jpg\" data-pin-description=\"Signs of weakness in Canadian automotive employment\"\/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As employment in Canada continues to be closely watched for signs of U.S.-tariff impacts, DesRosiers Automotive Consultants pulled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-182654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114679382467022408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}