Section 153.1923 — Employment Insurance Act: Determined earnings

The rate of weekly benefits under section 8.1 of the Employment Insurance (Fishing) Regulations shall be calculated using the highest of the following earnings: in the case of an initial claim for benefits under subsection 8(1) of those Regulations, if applicable, the earnings that would be used to calculate the fisher’s rate of weekly benefits, the earnings that were used to calculate the fisher’s rate of weekly benefits for the benefit period that was established for the fisher under subsection 8(1) of those Regulations during the period beginning on September 29, 2019 and ending on June 20, 2020, and the earnings that were used to calculate the fisher’s rate of weekly benefits for the benefit period that was established for the fisher under subsection 8(1) of those Regulations during the period beginning on September 30, 2018 and ending on June 15, 2019;

and in the case of an initial claim for benefits made on or after March 28, 2021 under subsection 8(6) of those Regulations, if applicable, the earnings that would be used to calculate the fisher’s rate of weekly benefits, the earnings that were used to calculate the fisher’s rate of weekly benefits for the benefit period that was established for the fisher under subsection 8(6) of those Regulations during the period beginning on March 29, 2020 and ending on December 19, 2020, and the earnings that were used to calculate the fisher’s rate of weekly benefits for the benefit period that was established for the fisher under subsection 8(6) of those Regulations during the period beginning on March 31, 2019 and ending on December 21, 2019. A fisher may have a benefit period established once under paragraph (1)(a) and once under paragraph (1)(b).