In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Federal Government of Canada has made changes to Employment Insurance (EI) Sickness Benefits and its Work-Sharing Program to assist eligible employers and ...
A growing number of men and women in Canada’s working-age population are getting unemployment benefits, recent data shows. Statistics Canada reported on Thursday that the number of men aged 25 to 54 ...
GATINEAU, Quebec, Sept. 26-- Employment and Social Development Canadian issued the following news release on Sept. 25: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Canada has put ...
Ottawa is making it easier for Canadians to calculate how much they can get from their Employment Insurance (EI) benefits. The federal government has launched the EI Benefits Estimator to support ...
Canadians eligible for Employment Insurance (EI) will get a higher maximum and pay lower premiums in 2025. As Canadians struggle with record unemployment during a cost-of-living and housing crisis, ...
Support local by picking up one of these BC-published books from an indie bookstore. If you are one of the 129,000 Canadian workers who lost a job last month, maybe you take comfort that all those ...
The New Democratic Party and a group of labour unions are calling on the federal government to change Canada’s employment insurance rules so that new parents, especially new mothers, are not denied ...
The Government of Canada has released the new employment insurance rates for 2026, and while the premium may be dropping, many Canadians will end up actually seeing more taken off their paycheques.
Maternity and parental benefits offer expecting parents support during an exciting yet financially challenging time. If you're a parent taking time off to care for a newborn or adopted child, the ...
"I've never seen layoffs like this in my life, and I've been doing this for 20 years," Allison Venditti, a human resources expert in Toronto, told CBC News. She's also the founder of advocacy group ...
In response to the economic impact of ongoing tariffs on Canadian goods, the federal government introduced an Employment Insurance (EI) pilot project in March 2025, which has now been partially ...
It took two weeks, but eventually, after much frustration, Shannon Jardine was put on hold. It was progress, sort of, a modest win but not everything the veteran Canadian actress had hoped for when ...