Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday that auto and other manufacturing workers can return to the job next week, further easing her stay-at-home order while extending it through May 28 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Michigan’s June rate was 3.7% higher than the national unemployment rate of 11.1%, which is down 2.2% since May. The previous high rate over this period was 16.5 percent in December 1982. Nearly 50,000 jobs were added in “leisure and hospitality,” credited largely to the reopening of restaurants.While leisure and hospitality jobs saw the largest spike in June, the industry was also the hardest hit since the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Michigan and eliminated nearly 44% of all industry jobs, according to the Department of Technology, Management & Budget.Health officials say you should be staying at least 6 feet away from others and working from home, if possible.Michigan Gov. Michigan’s workforce continues to be one of … (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)LANSING, MI -- Michigan’s unemployment rate fell 6.5 % to 14.8% in June but remains “well above” pre-pandemic levels and slightly above the unemployment rate reported during the Great Recession in 2009, state officials said in a statement Wednesday, July 15.While the addition of 464,000 jobs helped bring down the 21.3% May unemployment rate, the total number of Michigan jobs remained 565,000 below February, according to data released by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget.The number of unemployed Michiganders was 50% higher than in June of 2019 and the jobless rate between March and June of this year averaged 19.9 percent, “which was likely a record high and certainly the highest among comparable quarterly data back to 1976,” the Department of Technology, Management & Budget said.“Michigan’s labor market in June recorded a notable rebound in jobs, led by significant recalls in the auto industry,” state Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives Director Jason Palmer said. An unemployed Michigan worker looks at the State of Michigan unemployment site, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Unemployment Insurance Taxes. The number of Michigan residents receiving unemployment checks decreased by 130,927 claims between the weeks ending June 13 and June 20. ET Data extracted on: July 17, 2020 Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Note: More data series, including additional geographic areas, are available through the "Databases & Tables" tab at the top of this page.
Ann Arbor, MI; Battle Creek, MI; Bay City, MI Michigan includes the following metropolitan areas for which an Economy At A Glance table is available:. All rights reserved ( Economic Report Unemployment rate falls in 43 states in May, but still tops 20% in Nevada, Michigan and Hawaii Published: June 19, 2020 at 11:52 a.m. Michigan Gov. Employment plunged by 526,000, while unemployment moved up by 324,000, resulting in a net workforce reduction of 202,000 since April 2019.As such, the information in this release significantly reflects the April employment impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Michigan’s workforce. The unemployment rate fell … The unemployment rate in Michigan peaked in April 2020 at 24.0% and is now 9.2 percentage points lower. Monthly labor force trends and highlights Michigan’s April 2020 unemployment rate of 22.7 percent is the highest rate since at least 1976 (as far back as comparable estimates go), likely making it an all-time high. Over the year, the national jobless rate advanced by 11.1 percentage points, while the state rate climbed by 18.4 percentage points.“April’s historic unemployment rate and job declines reflected the first full month of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the state’s labor market,” said Jason Palmer, director of the Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives.