Employees will bear a large portion of the cost of higher EI premium rates in the form of lower wages.
unemployment insurance
August 12, 2020
9:03PM
Some workers remain unemployed because the benefits are generous.
June 25, 2020
10:40AM
EI benefits are based on unemployment in each of Canada’s 62 EI regions.
June 23, 2020
1:00AM
May 14, 2020
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Canadians can earn up to $1,000 per month and remain eligible for CERB.
March 26, 2020
10:38AM
The $3.8 billion program will provide up to $25,000 in subsidies per employer.
July 21, 2017
12:41PM
The effect of the sharply rising minimum wage has been sharply rising joblessness among Seattle’s low-wage workers.
June 2, 2016
4:46PM
When there’s no competition for services such as welfare and unemployment insurance, there’s no market discipline forcing government bureaucracies to listen to its “customers.”