Employment Insurance Act

Marginal note:Regulations for work-sharing benefits

• 24 (1) The Commission may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations providing for the payment of work-sharing benefits to claimants who are qualified to receive benefits under this Act and are employed under a work-sharing agreement that has been approved for the purposes of this section by special or general direction of the Commission, including regulations

  • (a) defining and determining the nature of work-sharing employment for which benefits may be paid;

  • (b) prescribing the maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid;

  • (c) prescribing the method of paying benefits;

  • (d) prescribing the rate of weekly benefits;

  • (e) providing a method for setting the amount that is the weekly insurable earnings of a claimant employed in work-sharing employment for the purposes of section 14;

  • (f) prescribing the manner of treating, for benefit purposes, earnings received from the claimant’s employer or from other sources;

  • (g) providing for the extension of a claimant’s qualifying period or benefit period for a number of weeks not exceeding the number of weeks of work-sharing employment;

  • (h) deferring service by a claimant of all or any part of their waiting period until their work-sharing employment has ended; and

  • (i) providing for any other matters necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this section.

• Marginal note:No appeal

  (2) A special or general direction of the Commission approving or disapproving a work sharing agreement for the purposes of subsection (1) is not subject to review under section 112.

• Marginal note:Presumption

  (3) For the purposes of this Part, a claimant is unemployed and capable of and available for work during a week when the claimant works in work-sharing employment.