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top-up of employment insurance benefits

By Occasional Contributors | 2 Minutes Read March 25, 2020

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

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.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Employment Standards, Payroll / COVID-19, employment law, layoff, SUB Plans, Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plans, top-up of employment insurance benefits

By Alison J. Bird | 3 Minutes Read July 7, 2015

Is the failure to provide parental leave “top-up” benefits discriminatory?

In Adekayode v Halifax (Regional Municipality), a Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission Board of Inquiry recently considered a complaint alleging that an employer’s failure to provide a top-up of employment insurance benefits for biological parents during a parental leave was discriminatory.

Article by Alison J. Bird / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Human Rights, Payroll, Union Relations / collective agreement, discrimination, discrimination based on how the parent/child relationship, employment insurance benefits, employment law, family status, human rights act, Human Rights Commission Board of Inquiry, leave policies, parental leave, supplemental employment benefits, top-up, top-up benefits, top-up of employment insurance benefits

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