So, yes, ironically you could win $10 million and still collect EI as I understand it. But as always, if there is any doubt, contact Service Canada and they will help you out. What if I get pregnant again while I’m on maternity leave? ...

Note: The Employment Insurance Coverage Survey has been conducted for Human Resources and Social Development Canada since 1997. The survey is conducted in four cycles each year, in April, July, November and January. ...

Currently, self-employed Canadians are not eligible for Employment Insurance, including maternity or parental leave benefits. This is a failing of current policy, particularly for the nearly one million self-employed women in Canada.[2] ...

The study, "Fathers' use of paid parental leave," published today in Perspectives on Labour and Income, uses data from the 2006 Employment Insurance Coverage Survey to examine the use by fathers of paid parental leave inside and outside ...

Employers are under no legal obligation to continue paying an employee who is on pregnancy or parental leave, though some elect to do so, whether from competitive or altruistic motivations. However, the federal Employment Insurance ...

Here in California, the State Assembly decided a few years ago that the standard maternity leave provisions weren’t enough, and they passed the California Family Rights Act and the Paid Family Leave Act which provide for extended leave ...

Harper today announced that he would include self-employed workers in EI for purposes of paid maternity and parental leave. Extending such EI coverage is a good idea, and Quebec has already done this through a provincial adaptation of ...

He had used the program to obtain EI parental leave benefits after being denied because he hadn’t taken them during the time his disabled child was in hospital. But in the end there was hardly a whimper of meaningful protest. ...

For those reading this outside of Canada, Service Canada, the government agency that manages employment insurance services including parental leave, summarizes these benefits as follows: “Parental benefits are payable either to the ...

According to research by Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail, the country's Employment Insurance Act spells out that one person cannot apply for additional benefits for multiple births. But, they say, it does not "specifically address ...