The number of new Employment Insurance recipients in Canada is rising as a rapid rate, according to Statistics Canada, which notes Quebec and Ontario saw the highest rise in June.

The report found only 46 per cent of Canada's unemployed received EI benefits last year, compared with 86 per cent in 1981.

A new report confirms what the jobless have been saying for years: 10 years of "modernizing" the processing of employment-insurance claims created even longer waiting times and bigger backlogs.

A New Brunswick MP says a recently released report on employment insurance reforms is "spot on." Dominic LeBlanc, the Liberal MP for Beauséjour, says the report by the Council of Atlantic Premiers ...

Last month’s report showed that September coverage fell to a new historical low of 30.5 per cent. Some speculated that it was an aberration, but the October report confirms that we have indeed entered ...

Ottawa, June 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Restaurants Canada, together with other national business associations, is urging the federal government to act on the findings of a pivotal report titled ...

The Employment Insurance Act replaced the Unemployment Insurance Act of 1996. The updated scheme was designed to link unemployment benefits with wages and to reduce penalties for those who could ...