Employment Insurance Regulations - Part I - Unemployment Benefits
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Current EI (Main) Regulations
42. Work-sharing benefits are payable to a claimant who is employed in work-sharing employment for each week of unemployment that falls in a benefit period established for the claimant, and subject to sections 43 to 49, the Act and any regulations made under the Act apply to the claimant, with such modifications as the circumstances require.
SOR/2003-43, s. 2
43. An interruption of earnings occurs, in respect of a person employed in work-sharing employment, at the beginning of the week in which there is a reduction of at least 10 per cent in the person's normal weekly earnings.
44. A claimant is not entitled to work-sharing benefits for any week for which the claimant claims benefits under section 12 of the Act.
45. Where a benefit period has been established in respect of a claimant and for any week during that benefit period the claimant is employed in work-sharing employment, the benefit period shall be extended by the total of those weeks and subsections 10(12) to 10(15) of the Act apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require.
SOR/2002-157, s. 2
46. Where a claimant becomes employed in work-sharing employment and a waiting period or any portion of that period has not been served by the claimant as required by section 13 of the Act or earnings have not been deducted as required by subsection 19(1) of the Act, the serving of the period or the deduction of the earnings shall be deferred until that employment has terminated.
47. (1) Earnings received for any week by a claimant from work-sharing employment shall not be deducted from the work-sharing benefits payable pursuant to section 24 of the Act.
(2) If a claimant receives earnings for any week other than by reason of work-sharing employment, the amount determined under subsection 19(2) of the Act shall be deducted from the work-sharing benefits payable to the claimant for that week.
48. The rate of weekly benefits payable to a claimant employed under a work-sharing agreement approved by the Commission for the purposes of section 24 of the Act is an amount that bears the same ratio to the claimant's rate of weekly benefits determined pursuant to section 14 of the Act that
- the number of hours, days or shifts that the claimant did not work because of the work-sharing agreement
bears to - the number of hours, days or shifts that the claimant would have worked for the employer according to the claimant's usual work schedule.
49. Work-sharing benefits shall not be taken into account for the purposes of paragraph 10(8)(a) of the Act or for determining the benefits payable under sections 22 and 23 of the Act.
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