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Originally Posted by Azure
The third category is called “frequent” users, defined as someone who has made three or more regular or fishing claims and collected 60 or more weeks of benefits in the past five years. This category currently makes up 58 per cent of all EI claimants. Frequent recipients will only have six weeks to find a job in a “similar occupation” at at least 80 per cent of pay.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ontent=2442261
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58% of current EI claimants have collected more than 60 weeks in the last 5 years? Aka, in the last 5 years they've spent less then 4 years working?
Yup, these reforms seem downright reasonable. Even the sliding 90-80-70% of previous earnings seems more than fair as well. I don't buy the fear mongering "experienced engineers are going to be forced to work at Tim Horton's" argument either.
It sounds like reasonably if you've paid into the system for years you'll have 4-4.5 months to find a job that pays 90% of your previous earnings... that actually does give you the option of being a little picky. While nobody wants a paycut I'd say most reasonable people & employers would not consider a gap of 10% +/- in salary negotiations to be a deal breaker.