EI Before the Crisis
The new EI Monitoring and Assessment Report provides some useful information about access before the crisis.
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/employment/ei/reports/eimar_2008/index.shtml
In 2007, about one in five (17.7%) of EI premium payers who were laid-off did not qualify for access to EI due specifically to a lack of enough hours of insured work, including 66% of (mainly women) part-time workers and 54% of young workers. That amounted to 99,000 persons in an average month.
Of those who got into the system in 2007, more than one in four (30% of women and 27% of men) exhausted their benefits before finding a new job. (See Chapter 5.)
Fewer premium payers would qualify today due to cuts in hours worked and the sharp rise in part-time work, and we will see a rise in the proportion of exhaustees among those who get in because of the shrinkage in jobs.
Which is why access to EI will remain a key issue, despite those Conservative claims that there is no access issue.
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