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The Government has announced a new, temporary one-year measure that will provide up to four more weeks of Employment Insurance (EI) regular benefits to eligible seasonal claimants in 13 EI regions to mitigate the increased risk of an income gap between work seasons due to low unemployment rates combined with shorter than usual work seasons.
How is the Government of Canada supporting workers in seasonal employment?
What are some of the important findings of compliance inspections under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in the last fiscal year?
On November 21, 2023, the Fall Economic Statement announced that a 15-week shareable adoption benefit would be introduced in the Employment Insurance (EI) program. Parents who form their family through surrogacy would also be eligible for this benefit.
Local politicians and union members in Windsor are raising concerns that a battery plant currently being built in the city will employ temporary foreign workers to fill positions. The plant is expected to receive billions in financial support from the Province of Ontario and the federal government
What is the Government’s response to the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s report and model on the Canada Disability Benefit? Will the Benefit resemble the scenarios laid out in the report?
On October 19, 2023, the Auditor General tabled an audit report on the Benefits Delivery Modernization Programme
On November 9, 2023 the Toronto Star published an article on child poverty titled “The Kids Aren’t All Right”/
Aristotle Foundation research refuting existence of systemic racism based on data on education and wages.
What are the implications of the findings from the 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability? What is the Government doing to advance the inclusion of persons with disabilities?