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Originally posted by love_n_peace
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Originally posted by GreatGuy
I have clocked over the 900 hours required. In case, I lose my job and then get another (temp position) one briefly say for 2 months ...
am I eligiable for EI? Or do I need to clock the hours again?
Thanks in advance
I had 1500 hrs in my first job. I quit that job on myself and joined another company. The other company gave me lay off in just 2 months. AND MY EI did not approve becuase I quit myself the job in which I had 1500 hrs.
So its depend upon your first job, if u quit your self, U do not get it. If they laid U off, then its ok.
theres gotta be sumthing wrong...one of my friend quit his job when he found better job..he was on contract...after his contract was finished...they laid him off and he got ei rite away..
and other friend of mine was fired and he still got EI...
did u appeal?
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Posted on: 25-04-08 14:15:24
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Posted on: 25-04-08 14:15:24
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Originally posted by love_n_peace
I had 1500 hrs in my first job. I quit that job on myself and joined another company. The other company gave me lay off in just 2 months. AND MY EI did not approve becuase I quit myself the job in which I had 1500 hrs.
So its depend upon your first job, if u quit your self, U do not get it. If they laid U off, then its ok.
L&P,
The problem in your case was that EI states that if you quit a job or even get laid off and join another job, you will not get EI until you complete the min. number of hours required. In your case it is around 300 hours plus. I guess in your first 2 months of work, you did not acheive that (May be the current regulations could indicate that you must clock more hours , say 350 or 400). This regulation was put into place to prevent people quiting a company (where they canot get layoff) and then joining a company where you know that you can get laid off in a month or so.
Let me give you an example (Hypothetical). Just assume that I am in a very good professional company. I come to a conclusion that I should get EI and also do a very good course (for Free- to be sponsered by the HRDC which can run into 1000's of dollars). So I quit my professional company (b'cos they will not give me layoff there) and join some labour job where you are sure to get fired even if you donot do one shift right. So you join there and work for a month (clocking 160 hours) and then you start acting indifferently. Most labour job intensive companies give lay off only and since you are there for just a month or two you are not very bonded and no one gives you warning / puts you under watch , if you donot work properly. So you will get lay off and then go on to file EI and get all the good benefits. This is the reason as to why the govt. decided to set a min. no of hours to be worked (after you change jobs) to enable you to get EI if you are laid off.
Hope this helps
Peace
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Hi,
okay ! thanks for your thoughts.
how does EI work in general. Say you work in canada for 3 years and then head back to india - can you get your premiums back?
Or is some form of hidden taxation or what?
Thanks
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GreatGuy
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us"
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
Let me give you an example (Hypothetical). Just assume that I am in a very good professional company. I come to a conclusion that I should get EI and also do a very good course (for Free- to be sponsored by the HRDC which can run into 1000's of dollars). So I quit my professional company (b'cos they will not give me layoff there) and join some labour job where you are sure to get fired even if you donot do one shift right. So you join there and work for a month (clocking 160 hours) and then you start acting indifferently. Most labour job intensive companies give lay off only and since you are there for just a month or two you are not very bonded and no one gives you warning / puts you under watch , if you donot work properly. So you will get lay off and then go on to file EI and get all the good benefits. This is the reason as to why the govt. decided to set a min. no of hours to be worked (after you change jobs) to enable you to get EI if you are laid off.
Hope this helps
Peace
How about working for another 900hrs on second labor job and then get on to great EI benefits??
BS that EI will finance everything under this sun and secondly EI benefits are not great to backup 1000s of Dollar job loss. For your records EI will not support full time program, correspondence courses and MBA is out of question.
EI is for covering you for work loss compensation. Why EI should doubt persons intention when it is a genuine work loss? They may doubt person's intention if lay off is from the business owned by family but otherwise it is rip off by EI if they ask worker to clock 900 hrs at every job change.
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