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Slaw: Quebec Calls for corrections to the 2012 federal Employment Insurance reforms

On November 27, 2013, Quebec’s National Employment Insurance Review Commission released its report regarding the impact of the federal government's 2012 changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) program. The report makes 30 recommendations, with three key recommendations calling for the provincial and federal governments to negotiate an agreement giving Quebec the power to manage its own EI system to meet the needs of the province’s labour market.

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Our federal government's recent introduction of proposed reforms to the employment insurance system has prompted the expected furor from both sides of the debate...

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Employment insurance sweeping reforms

The federal Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development recently announced that the government is making significant changes to the employment insurance system to ensure its efficiency. At the same time as these changes were announced, the Canadian Press learned that the government has stopped providing Statistics Canada "key and current information about how much federal money is flowing to each of the provinces for EI claimants."

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