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Canada and Quebec / Working on EI regulations will marginally help in responding to labour market needs
Unemployment worldwide and youth unemployment are a tragedy. The number of unemployed in the world has exploded with 28 million people jobless in the five years following the global financial crisis. In 2012, there were 197 million people unemployed according to the ILO. In 2013, about 210.6 million people will be unemployed according to the … Continue reading
Canada / Employment-Insurance: The Thought of the Day
Unemployment insurance is meant to meet the labour market cyclical economic needs, the needs related to job search, the in-between. It is not supposed to be the mean to support income of the ‘chronically’ or repeatedly unemployed in an economically depressed area. Employment development cannot be achieved with income support. Michel Cournoyer Job Market Monitor‘s … Continue reading
Quebec / EI: The real ‘battle’ has been there for decades: the ‘battle’ for employment and regional development
As we predicted in our post yesterday Quebec / Employment-Insurance: Mrs. Maltais is doing everything to lose face, Ms. Maltais got a no for an answer it seems. In her statement to Anne-Marie Dussault on CBC Continuous News channel in french after her meeting yesterday night, Ms. Maltais said that she was determined to continue … Continue reading
Quebec / Employment-Insurance: Mrs. Maltais is doing everything to lose face
A few days ago, Chantal Hébert wrote in Le Devoir: The political risk Stephen Harper is exposed to is almost nil. The idea that EI is a burning subject in Canada is an optical illusion due to the relative proximity of those regions particularly affected by the reform. (freely translated by the author) Beyond political … Continue reading
Canada / Employment Insurance: the new JOB SEARCH FORM
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Canada | Employment Insurance | Nationwide Entrance Requirements and Benefit Entitlement Period
“Reforms to the Employment Insurance (EI) program should focus on removing barriers to mobility by creating uniform, nationwide entrance requirements and benefit entitlement period” write Colin Busby and David Gray in Mending Canada’s Employment Insurance Quilt: The Case for Restoring Equity published at cdhowe.org. “Under the current EI system, long-lasting EI benefits are more easily accessed in … Continue reading
Canada / Employment Insurance : How to Adjust EI to the new world of work – Gunderson
Work is ‘changing nature’ with respect to Employment Insurance writes MORLEY GUNDERSON in EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN THE NEW WORLD OF WORK on mowateitaskforce.ca. “The demand-side changes include: skill-biased technological change, especially associated with the computer revolution and the shift to a knowledge economy; trade liberalization; globalization and offshore outsourcing; industrial restructuring mainly from manufacturing to … Continue reading
Canada / In effect today: The new Job Alerts system to Employement Insurance Recipient
Employment Insurance changes come into effect today Contentious changes to employment insurance are now in effect. Beginning Sunday, people on EI face stricter, more complex rules for keeping their benefits, with the goal of getting unemployed workers back into the workforce sooner. To help people get back to work, the government has also launched a … Continue reading
Canada / The New Suitable Job Regulation: 8 000 will have benefits temporarily discontinued
It is expected that EI regular claimants will increase their job search effort, which will result in them finding suitable employment and returning to work more quickly in regions where there are suitable employment opportunities. In turn, their time on claim will be shortened. Enhanced compliance measures to ensure claimants are fulfilling their responsibility to … Continue reading
Canada / Employment Insurance / Up 4,600 (+0.9%) to 535,000October 2012
Following a small decline in September, the number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in October edged up 4,600 (+0.9%) to 535,000. The number of beneficiaries increased slightly in Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and Quebec, while it edged down in British Columbia. Employment Insurance beneficiaries edge up in October . Choosen excerpts by Job Market … Continue reading
Canada / Suitable employment and reasonable job search efforts – Gov’t Info
You have always been responsible for conducting reasonable job searches, documenting your job search activities and accepting any offer of suitable employment while receiving Employment Insurance (EI) regular and fishing benefits. The Connecting Canadians with Available Jobs (CCAJ) initiative has clarified the definitions ofsuitable employment and reasonable job search. Suitable employment Several factors will determine what will be consideredsuitable … Continue reading
Canada / Employment Insurance / Slight Decline
Following an increase in August, the number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in September declined slightly, by 5,700 (-1.1%), to 525,900. The number of beneficiaries edged down in Quebec, British Columbia and New Brunswick, while it rose slightly in Manitoba. Chart 1 Employment Insurance beneficiaries down slightly in September Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor from via … Continue reading
Canada / New EI benefit for parents of critically ill or injured children to come ?
The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, today marked the unanimous adoption of the Helping Families in Need Act by the House of Commons. The Bill will now be studied by the Senate before receiving Royal Assent, the final step in the legislative process. “The Harper Government is delivering on its … Continue reading
Canada – Employment insurance changes hasty and unwise
The federal government introduced a 425-page bill in the spring to ram changes through Parliament on everything from employment insurance to the age of retirement. The government refused all pleas to split the bill up so that each resulting piece of legislation could be debated adequately. Now the finance minister is at it again, introducing … Continue reading
Canada – Employment Insurrance – New claims established after Sept. 15 are entitled to five fewer weeks of benefits
The Canadian government has quietly not renewed an employment insurance pilot program designed to benefit people across the country who live in regions with high unemployment. The Extended Employment Insurance Benefits Pilot Project provided an extra five weeks of benefits to people living in 21 designated regions across the country. The program was introduced in … Continue reading
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