Section 24 — Employment Insurance Act: Regulations for work-sharing benefits

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 defining and determining the nature of work-sharing employment for which benefits may be paid; prescribing the maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid; prescribing the method of paying benefits; prescribing the rate of weekly benefits; 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; prescribing the manner of treating, for benefit purposes, earnings received from the claimant’s employer or from other sources; 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; deferring service by a claimant of all or any part of their waiting period until their work-sharing employment has ended; and providing for any other matters necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this section. 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. 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.