Employment Insurance Regulations - Part I - Unemployment Benefits
Current EI (Main) Regulations
PART I
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
Prescribed Hours and Prescribed Weeks
12. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 7(4)(c) of the Act, the number of prescribed hours for any of the following weeks is 35 hours:
(a) a week in respect of which a claimant has received or will receive(i) workers' compensation payments, other than a lump sum or pension paid in full and final settlement of a claim made for workers' compensation payments,
(ii) under a wage-loss indemnity plan, any earnings by reason of illness, injury, quarantine, pregnancy or care of a child or children referred to in subsection 23(1) of the Act,
(iii) indemnity payments referred to in paragraph 35(2)(f),
(iv) earnings because of which, pursuant to section 19 of the Act, no benefits are payable to the claimant, or
(v) an income support grant payment under the Atlantic Groundfish Strategy, other than a grant payment to provide support for an early retirement;
(b) a week in which the claimant was(i) attending a course or program of instruction or training to which the claimant was referred by the Commission or by an authority designated by the Commission,
(ii) employed under the Self-employment employment benefit or the Job Creation Partnerships employment benefit established by the Commission under section 59 of the Act or under a similar benefit that is provided by a provincial government or other organization and is the subject of an agreement under section 63 of the Act,
(iii) prevented from establishing an interruption of earnings by virtue of the allocation of earnings pursuant to section 36,
(iv) serving a week of the waiting period, or
(v) serving a week of disqualification under section 28 of the Act or disqualified under section 30 of the Act for a week of unemployment for which benefits would otherwise be payable;
(c) a week of unemployment due to a stoppage of work attributable to a labour dispute at the factory, workshop or other premises at which the claimant was employed.
(1.1) [Repealed, SOR/98-424, s. 1]
(2) For the purposes of subsection 14(4) of the Act, a prescribed week is a week in which the claimant has no insurable earnings and is
(a) a week in respect of which a claimant has received or will receive(i) workers' compensation payments, other than a lump sum or pension paid in full and final settlement of a claim made for workers' compensation payments,
(ii) under a wage-loss indemnity plan, any earnings by reason of illness, injury, quarantine, pregnancy or care of a child or children referred to in subsection 23(1) of the Act,
(iii) indemnity payments referred to in paragraph 35(2)(f), or
(iv) earnings because of which, pursuant to section 19 of the Act, no benefits are payable to the claimant;
(b) a week in which the claimant was(i) attending a course or program of instruction or training to which the claimant was referred by the Commission or by an authority designated by the Commission,
(ii) employed under the Self-employment employment benefit or the Job Creation Partnerships employment benefit established by the Commission under section 59 of the Act or under a similar benefit that is provided by a provincial government or other organization and is the subject of an agreement under section 63 of the Act,
(iii) prevented from establishing an interruption of earnings by virtue of the allocation of earnings pursuant to section 36,
(iv) serving a week of the waiting period, or
(v) serving a week of disqualification under section 28 of the Act or disqualified under section 30 of the Act for a week of unemployment for which benefits would otherwise be payable;
(c) a week of unemployment due to a stoppage of work attributable to a labour dispute at the factory, workshop or other premises at which the claimant was employed; or
(d) a week for which benefits have been paid or were payable to the claimant.
(3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), where a week is taken into account under any paragraph or subparagraph of subsection (1) or (2), or where that week coincides with a week of benefits paid, that week may not be taken into account under any other paragraph or subparagraph of that subsection.
SOR/97-31, s. 6; SOR/97-309, s. 1; SOR/97-310, ss. 4, 5; SOR/98-1, s. 1; SOR/98-424, s. 1.