Short term, part time work is making it harder for us to collect unemployment insurance (EI) when we lose our jobs. Fewer people are working enough hours to qualify for EI according to Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada reports that there are more part time jobs being created than full time jobs. That is why EI… contine reading
Employment Insurance
Changes to EI and migrant worker wage cut part of a “cheap labour agenda”
WAC joined the Good Jobs for All Coalition at an info picket to expose the “cheap labour agenda”, which include the recent changes to Employment Insurance and to the migrant worker program. The EI changes will force unemployed workers to take lower-paying work or risk losing their EI benefits. Meanwhile, employers are now permitted to… contine reading
Proposed EI changes will push workers into low-wage jobs
Part of the Conservative government’s new omnibus bill would require workers on Employment Insurance to accept work that pays up to 70 per cent less, to move in search of work, and to take available jobs outside their own occupation. In a Toronto Star article released today, Zelda, a Workers’ Action Centre member speaks out… contine reading
Service Canada Office Closures causing serious delays for workers accessing EI
Accessing services is going to get a lot more difficult for workers needing EI. The Federal Government has announced a merger of Service Canada Centres from 120 to just 22 operating across the country over the next 3 years. There will be now only 6 processing centres in Ontario! The sites will be Richmond Hill… contine reading