Employment Insurance Regulations (SOR/96-332)

51 (1) Subject to the Act and these Regulations, but notwithstanding section 30 of the Act, a claimant who has left employment in accordance with an employer work-force reduction process that preserves the employment of co-workers may be paid benefits where

• (a) the claimant accepted an offer to leave that employment voluntarily; and

• (b) the employer has confirmed that the claimant's leaving resulted in the actual preservation of the employment of a co-worker whose employment would otherwise have been terminated in the course of the work-force reduction process.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an employer work-force reduction process is a process

• (a) that is initiated by the employer;

• (b) that has as its objective a permanent reduction in the overall number of employees;

• (c) that offers employees the option to leave employment voluntarily; and

• (d) the elements of which, including the elements described in paragraphs (a) to (c), are documented by the employer.