Employment Insurance Act - Part I - Unemployment Benefits

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Current Version of the Employment Insurance Act

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PART I

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

Availability for work, etc.

18. A claimant is not entitled to be paid benefits for a working day in a benefit period for which the claimant fails to prove that on that day the claimant was

  1. capable of and available for work and unable to obtain suitable employment;
  2. unable to work because of a prescribed illness, injury or quarantine, and that the claimant would otherwise be available for work; or
  3.  engaged in jury service.
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