Mr Hoyle's bill hopes to change the formula through which the payments are made to help
unemployed workers through the recession.
Not exact matches
Canadian unions have begun flexing their muscles in areas previously outside their range — standing up for non-unionized temporary foreign
workers at Tim Hortons in B.C. and even,
through Unifor, the country's largest union, opening a form of membership to everyone from part - time
workers to the
unemployed.
But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if
unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income
through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.
This is cold comfort for the more than 40 % of
unemployed workers who do not qualify for EI benefits, and for those seeking skills training funded
through the EI program.
On the one hand, countless
unemployed or underemployed
workers with perfectly good skills, education, and experience are struggling
through a severe job drought, many sending out hundreds of applications and resumes to no avail.
The Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides temporary financial assistance to
workers who are
unemployed through no fault of their own.