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Employment Insurance Regulations (SOR/96-332)

Regulations are current to 2024-06-19 and last amended on 2023-12-08. Previous Versions

  •  (1) Where an insured person is employed on a full-time basis for and remunerated for less than 35 hours per week in an occupation in which the maximum number of hours of full-time work per week is limited by federal or provincial statutes or regulations made under those statutes to less than 35 hours, the insured person is deemed to be employed in insurable employment for 35 hours per week.

  • (2) Subject to section 10,

    • (a) an insured person who is a member of the Canadian Forces on full-time service or of a police force and is required to be available on standby outside of their regularly scheduled hours of work is deemed to be employed in insurable employment for 35 hours per week; and

    • (b) an insured person who is a member of the reserve force and is paid the rate of pay for

      • (i) each period of duty or training of less than 6 hours is deemed to be employed in insurable employment for 3 1/2 hours per period, or

      • (ii) each period of duty or training of not less than 6 hours and not more than 24 hours is deemed to be employed in insurable employment for 7 hours per period

      to a maximum of 35 hours of insurable employment per week.

  • SOR/97-310, s. 3

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