C-467
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-467
An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (labour dispute)
first reading, November 26, 2012
NOTE
2nd Session, 41st Parliament
This bill was introduced during the First Session of the 41st Parliament. Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, it is deemed to have been considered and approved at all stages completed at the time of prorogation of the First Session. The number of the bill remains unchanged.
Mr. Fortin
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Employment Insurance Act to change the way in which the qualifying period is established in the case of a work stoppage attributable to a labour dispute.
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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012
house of commons of canada
BILL C-467
An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (labour dispute)
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1996, c. 23
EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT
1. (1) Subsection 8(2) of the Employment Insurance Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of paragraph (c), by adding “or” at the end of paragraph (d) and by adding the following after paragraph (d):
(e) unemployed because of a work stoppage attributable to a labour dispute at the factory, workshop or other premises at which the person was employed.
(2) The Act is amended by adding the following after subsection 8(7):
Labour dispute
(8) Despite subsection (7), the extension of a qualifying period may be equal to the duration of the period of unemployment attributable to a labour dispute at the factory, workshop or other premises at which the person was employed, provided that, for the purposes of determining the weekly rate of benefits, the qualifying period is established retrospectively to the 52 weeks preceding the beginning of the dispute.
COMING INTO FORCE
Coming into force
2. This Act is deemed to have come into force on January 1, 2008.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons