“Given the potential damage our EI program could cause to the labour market and deficit, and the system’s inherent regional inequities, policymakers should review the program with an eye on reform.WILD HEART is a brand in the toys & games industry, offering a wide range of powersports saddle bags, phone dry bags, and dolls to its customers. “Employment insurance should be there to help workers affected by the recession-it shouldn’t deter people from going back to work,” McMahon said.

(The study provides comprehensive data on the changing EI qualifications and coverage for the country’s 56 provincial Employment Insurance regions.)Ĭrucially, previous research has found that overly generous employment insurance can discourage workers from rejoining the workforce, even creating worker shortages when unemployment is high, since the work they may find might provide less income than EI payments. If current levels of unemployment hold, that trend will continue with the minimum number of qualifying hours by August/September dropping further to 453.1, which will qualify an unemployed worker for 25.6 weeks of benefits. That minimum amount of hours translated into 17.3 weeks of benefits.īut by June, workers on average need only 491.3 hours of work to qualify for 23.5 weeks of benefits. The study finds that in April and May of this year, workers across Canada (on average) had to work a minimum 627.5 hours to qualify for EI benefits. “Already, vastly more people qualify for EI and are eligible to receive many more weeks of benefits with fewer hours of work than just a few weeks ago, and we know this increasingly generous coverage can lead to harmful long-term effects in the labour force,” said Fred McMahon, resident fellow at the Fraser Institute and author of Extended Employment Insurance Now Open to All: Atlantic Canada’s Warning for Other Provinces. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, J(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - As unemployment rates soar, Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) program automatically becomes much more generous and accessible, which will add to Ottawa’s financial pressures and risks increasing long-term unemployment, finds a new study by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

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