In response to the economic impact of ongoing tariffs on Canadian goods, the federal government introduced an Employment Insurance (EI) pilot ...

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, ...

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 ...

Justice for Migrant Workers says they have been in contact with many who had returned to Jamaica and face ‘near total ...

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 ...

OTTAWA - The Harper government appears poised to extend the duration of employment insurance benefits, a potentially election-averting move aimed at shaming the Liberals and wooing the NDP. But while ...

A new report from Statistics Canada shows that the number of people receiving Employment Insurance (EI) benefits has increased staggeringly in just one year. Canada's unemployment rate has been high ...

"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 ...

The waiting period acts like the deductible that must be paid for other types of insurance. Shortening the waiting period is expected to ease the financial strain for EI claimants and will put an ...