Unemployment Insurance (Collection of Premiums) Regulations (C.R.C., c. 1575)

Regulations are current to 2013-04-29

Drawings

  •  (1) Where an insured person's earnings in respect of his employment are paid to him from a drawing account on the basis of a weekly, multiple of a week, semi-monthly or monthly pay period, his earnings shall be allocated and the employee's premiums payable thereon determined, in accordance with the rules set forth in section 7 for the appropriate pay period.

  • (2) Notwithstanding subsections 4(1) to (2.2), where amounts are paid to an insured person in respect of employment from a drawing account on the basis of a pay period other than a pay period referred to in subsection (1), subsections 9(2), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) apply for the purpose of allocating the insured person's insurable earnings and determining the employee's premiums payable thereon.

  • SOR/95-593, s. 7.

Piece Work

  •  (1) Where an insured person's earnings in respect of his employment are calculated by the piece or on a similar basis and are paid on the basis of a weekly, multiple of a week, semi-monthly or monthly pay period, such earnings shall be allocated and the employee's premiums payable thereon determined, in accordance with the rules set forth in section 7 for the appropriate pay period.

  • (2) Notwithstanding subsections 4(1) to (2.2), where an insured person's earnings in respect of employment are calculated by the piece or on a similar basis and are paid on the basis of a pay period other than a pay period referred to in subsection (1), the provisions of subsections 9(2), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) apply for the purpose of allocating the insured person's insurable earnings and determining the employee's premiums payable thereon.

  • SOR/95-593, s. 8.

Railway Employees

 Notwithstanding subsection 7(2), an insured person who is employed by a railway company as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Railway Act, is paid on a mileage basis and earns in his bi-weekly pay period an amount not less than the maximum weekly insurable earnings shall be deemed to have earnings throughout the two weeks of that pay period.

Deemed Employers

 Where an insured person is employed in a pay period as a stevedore by one or more persons whose payroll records are prepared and maintained by another person who pays the remuneration of the insured person from that employment, the other person is deemed, for the purposes of Parts II and III of the Act and these Regulations, to be the employer of the insured person for the purpose of allocating that insured person's insurable earnings to the pay period and determining, paying, deducting and remitting the premiums payable thereon.

  • SOR/95-593, s. 9.
  •  (1) Where a person is employed in insurable employment by an employer for services in or in connection with lumbering or logging, in any logging limit or in any timber or lumber driveway, mill or yard, the owner thereof who authorizes the employer to undertake the work shall, in the event of the default of the employer in calculating the remuneration of the employee and in paying, deducting and remitting premiums payable thereon in accordance with the Act and these Regulations, be deemed to be the employer of the person for the purpose of paying and remitting the premiums so payable under the Act and these Regulations.

  • (2) For the purpose of this section, "owner" includes any owner (other than the Crown), lessee, licensee, and permittee but does not include a person who only sells or rents stumpage or cutting rights.