Employment Insurance Act
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 153.161 — Course, program of instruction or non-referred training
For the purposes of applying paragraph 18 (1)(a), a claimant who attends a course, program of instruction or training to which the claimant is not referred under paragraphs 25 (1)(a) or (b) is not…
Section 153.17 — Benefits under Part I
A claimant who makes an initial claim for benefits under Part I on or after September 27, 2020 or in relation to an interruption of earnings that occurs on or after that date is deemed to have in…
Section 153.171 — Benefits
A claimant who qualifies to receive benefits under section 7 and who received the additional 300 hours of insurable employment under paragraph 153.17 (1)(b) may make a claim for benefits under…
Section 153.172 — Fishing
A claimant for whom, before the coming into force of section 153.17, a benefit period could have been established under section 8 of the Employment Insurance (Fishing) Regulations may make a request…
Section 153.18 — Recipients of emergency response benefit
A qualifying period mentioned in paragraph 8(1)(a) is extended by 28 weeks if the claimant makes the initial claim for benefits on or after September 27, 2020 or in relation to an interruption of…
Section 153.19 — Late claims
For the purposes of subsections 10(4) and (5), the fact that, but for sections 153.17 and 153.18 as they read on August 29, 2020, the claimant would not have qualified to receive benefits referred to…
Section 153.191 — Waiver
Despite sections 13 and 152.15, a claimant need not serve a waiting period if the claim is in respect of benefits under Part I, VII.1 or VIII and the benefit period begins on or before October 25,…
Section 153.192 — Weekly insurable earnings
Despite subsection 14(2), the weekly insurable earnings of a claimant whose benefit period begins on or after September 27, 2020 are deemed to be the greater of the claimant’s insurable earnings in…
Section 153.1921 — Suspension of medical certificate requirement — Employment Insurance Regulations
For the purpose of applying subsection 40(1) of the Employment Insurance Regulations , the requirement for a claimant to provide a medical certificate to the Commission completed by a medical doctor…
Section 153.1922 — Eligibility
A fisher who does not meet the conditions under paragraph 8(2)(b) or (7)(b) of the Employment Insurance (Fishing) Regulations may receive benefits under section 8.1 of those Regulations if the fisher…
Section 153.1923 — 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…
Section 153.1924 — Qualifying period
For the purposes of the Employment Insurance (Fishing) Regulations , the earnings determined under subsection 153.1923(1) are the insurable earnings for the qualifying period.
Section 153.1925 — Access to special benefits
Despite subsection 12(1) of the Employment Insurance (Fishing) Regulations , an insured person who is not qualified to receive benefits under section 7 and who is claiming special benefits qualifies…
Section 153.193 — Exclusions from earnings
The following are to be excluded from the earnings referred to in section 35 of the Employment Insurance Regulations : any pay or earnings referred to in subsection 36(8), (9) or (19) of those…
Section 153.194 — Definition of employment
Despite paragraph 29(a), for the purposes of sections 30 to 33, employment refers to any employment of the claimant within their qualifying period, but no earlier than 12 weeks before the Sunday…
Section 153.195 — Information
Despite paragraph 51(a), the Commission may, but is not required to, give the claimant and the employer the opportunity referred to in that paragraph.
Section 153.196 — September 25, 2021 or repeal
Subject to subsections (2) and (3), this Part ceases to apply on the earlier of September 25, 2021 and the day on which Interim Order No. 8 Amending the Employment Insurance Act (Facilitated Access…
Section 153.197 — Weekly insurable earnings
Despite subsection 14(2), the weekly insurable earnings of a claimant whose benefit period begins during the period beginning on September 26, 2021 and ending on November 20, 2021 are deemed to be…
Section 156 — Allowances
A training allowance being paid under section 5 of the National Training Act when it is repealed may continue to be paid in accordance with that Act and the regulations made under it, as they read…
Section 157 — Agreements
An agreement under section 7 of the National Training Act in effect when it is repealed continues in effect according to the terms of the agreement.
Section 158
[Repealed, 2010, c. 12, s. 2190]
Section 159 — Benefit periods beginning before this section comes into force
Except as otherwise provided in this section, all matters relating to a claim for benefits during a benefit period beginning before the Unemployment Insurance Act (the “former Act”) is repealed shall…
Section 160 — Hours of insurable employment and earnings before 1997
For the purpose of calculating after 1996 how many hours of insurable employment and the amount of insurable earnings a claimant has under this Act, other than Part VIII, insurable employment and…
Section 161 — Premiums
All matters relating to the payment of premiums under the former Act shall be dealt with under that Act.
Section 162
[Repealed, 2010, c. 12, s. 2192]
Section 163 — Estimated insurable earnings for 1996-97
For the purposes of section 78, the Commission’s estimate of the insurable earnings of all insured persons in the fiscal year 1996-97 shall be published in the Canada Gazette if it is not set out in…
Section 164 — Powers and functions
The powers or functions of any person under the former Act shall be exercised or performed by the person who exercises the corresponding powers or performs the corresponding functions under this Act.…
Section 165 — Waivers and agreements
Waivers and agreements made under paragraph 4(1)(d) of the former Act and in effect when that Act is repealed continue in effect as though they had been made under paragraph 5(4)(d) of this Act.
Section 166
[Repealed, 2010, c. 12, s. 2193]
Section 167 — Regulations
The Commission may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations providing for any other transitional matters, including regulations providing for the transition from weeks of…
Section 190 — Coming into force
Except as otherwise provided in this section, this Act comes into force on June 30, 1996. Section 4, subsection 5(6), sections 66 and 67, subsections 82(1) and (2), paragraphs 90(1)(d), (h) and (i),…