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Employment insurance sweeping reforms

June 4, 2012 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Corporate Immigration, Human Resources, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Source Deductions and Reporting

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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