The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, and the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, today welcomed the Canada Employment Insurance Commission’s decision to hold the Employment Insurance ...
Bi-weekly columns from Canada's leading tax policy theorist. Exclusive to FP Comment. The NoPigou Club aims to counter the ideas of the Pigou Club, an informal assembly of economists and pundits who support the idea of raising gasoline ...
In August, 487500 Canadians received regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, virtually unchanged from July. During the month, regular benefit payments increased 2.7% to $729.8 million.
... Bill C-216, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (services to a charity or public authority); Bill C-217, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and the Canada Labour Code (compassionate care benefits for caregivers) ...
We need to make sure that employment insurance is there for Canadians when they need it. Similarly, we should change the Canada Student Loan program to ensure that all students have access to low-interest support. ...
OTTAWA — Canada Post Corporation (CPC) is trying to use the government’s Employment Insurance program to reduce its own costs, according to the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) — the union that represents about 2400 CPC ...
(CEP News) Ottawa - The number of Canadians receiving employment insurance benefits edged up 0.2% in August from the month before, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.
This exemption is highly pertinent to insurance and pension plans offered to federal public servants, as well as national public pension plans (for example, Canada Pension Plan). Another important exemption is with regard to special ...
To deny four out of five unemployed workers employment insurance after they have contributed from each pay cheque to the program is unfair. “The same number of children go hungry now as in 1989 when Parliament promised to eliminate ...
As Canadians head into tough times, more and more people will be looking to benefit from Employment Insurance (EI) to help them through the transition. The problem is, critics argue, changes to the federal program over the years mean ...
