Employment Insurance Regulations - Part I - Unemployment Benefits

The following information is out of date.

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Current EI (Main) Regulations

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 29. (1)  A claimant is considered to have worked a full working week during each week in the two-week period reported on in the declaration filed when making a claim for benefits where the claimant/

1.  is a railway employee;
2.  is remunerated on a mileage basis; and
3.  is remunerated in that two-week period at not less than twice the maximum weekly insurable earnings. 

(2)  Notwithstanding section 31, a claimant who is employed in farming or horticulture is considered to have worked a full working week during any week in which the claimant works

1.  not less than five days; and
2.  not less than 35 hours in total.

  (3)  Where, in any week, a claimant does not work on a holiday or, by reason of a holiday, does not work on the working day that immediately precedes or immediately follows that holiday, the claimant shall be regarded as having worked a full working week if, on each of the remaining working days in that week, the claimant works a number of hours at least equal to the number that the claimant would normally work. 

 (4)  Where an insured person is employed under a contract of employment under which the usual remuneration is payable in respect of a period greater than a week, regardless of the amount of work performed in the period, each week that falls wholly in that period is a full working week for the person.