Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plans

Employer options in the face of COVID-19

March 27, 2020 Jeff Dutton, Dutton Employment Law Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, Health and Safety, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Wages and Compensation, 0

Employers in Ontario facing economic hardship or mandatory closure have several options to manage employees, avoid risk and save expenses in the face of COVID-19 coronavirus.

COVID-19, declared emergency leave, employment law, infectious disease emergency leave, sick leave, Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plans, termination of employment, wage subsidy, work from home, work sharing

Topping up employee pay during temporary layoffs using a Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plan (SUB Plan) (Canada)

March 25, 2020 Occasional Contributors Employment/Labour Standards, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Wages and Compensation, 3

Recently, more employers have begun to consider using Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plans (SUB Plans) to provide financial assistance to their employees during a period of layoff due to temporary stoppage of work, training, or illness, injury or quarantine.

COVID-19, employment law, layoff, SUB Plans, Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plans, top-up of employment insurance benefits

EI waiting period changes January 1, 2017

November 1, 2016 Michele Glassford Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation

As reported by Yosie Saint-Cyr in the October 24, 2016 edition of HR Infodesk, the federal Employment Insurance Act was amended on June 22, 2016, in part to decrease the waiting period for benefits to commence from two weeks to one week. The new waiting period is to commence on January 1, 2017. The change, in effect, reduces the total benefit entitlement period under EI, although it doesn’t change the maximum benefit period, or weeks of benefits payable.

benefit entitlements, Compassionate Care Leave, critically ill child care leave, EI, EI waiting period, Employment Insurance, Employment Insurance Act, employment law, employment leave, leave entitlements, parental leave, pregnancy leave, SUB Plans, Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plans