Severance pay works by the employer providing you pay in lieu of it having to give you advanced “notice” that your employment will be terminated. For example, let’s say your employer has to give you six months’ notice. Severance pay is just a cheque for six months pay instead of you being told you will …
EI
To qualify for employment insurance (“EI”) you need “X” number of “Hours” of work during a 52 week “Qualifying Period”. Some employees who are just short of the number of Hours required to be eligible for EI ask me if the severance pay, or the pay in lieu of notice upon termination they receive counts as …
Section 19(3)(i) of the Employment Insurance Regulations (SOR/96-332) (“the Regulations”) state that an employer must issue the Record of Employment (“ROE”) within 5 days after the employee’s earnings are “interrupted”.
March 25 Update: In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian government has proposed legislation to establish a new kind of income replacement benefit called the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). The CERB will temporarily replace all new applications for Employment Insurance once it is in place. We don’t yet know if the CERB will require an …
When an employee is terminated, the employer must submit to Service Canada a Record of Employment (“ROE”) on behalf of the employee. The ROE tells Service Canada about the employee’s entitlement to social security, including, most importantly, employment insurance (“EI”). What an employer puts down on the ROE as the reason the employee was terminated for (i.e. the …