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Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil
I'd rather the increase the premiums for seasonal employees who know their jobs are ending when the snow flies and make yearly claims. If no claim is made for a calendar year, premiums should reflect that as well.
If someone is getting $485/week Even at 14 weeks that's close to 7k. When the maximum amount of premiums paid by any canadian is only $839.97 for 2012, that's equivalent to collecting 8 full time employee contributions to the EI pool who may have never had to claim EI.
Hopefully that makes sense.
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That's actually a really great idea. When I was young I worked for a paving crew and they knew they were getting laid off the first time the temperature drops, and these guys idea of looking for a job in the winter was taking a swig out of a bottle of beer and taking a look out the window.
I like the idea that if you work overtime during the season that the overtime is banked and not paid on those paychecks and you can't collect UI until that banked time is depleted in the form of regular paychecks.
So if you work 80 hours a week for 16 weeks its equivalent to 40 hours a week for 32 weeks and you can't collect UI until that last paycheck is cashed at the end of week 32.