Employment Insurance Regulations - Amendments

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1. (1) The portion of subsection 8(1) of the Employment Insurance Regulations¹ before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

8. (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4), the following employments are excluded from insurable employment:

(2) Subsection 8(1) of the Regulations is amended by adding the word "and" at the end of paragraph (a) and by replacing paragraph (b).

(3) Subparagraph 8(1)(c)(ii) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

(ii) is employed by that employer in that employment for less then 35 hours in any year after 1998.

(4) Subsection 8(2) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:
(2) Where an employment that has been excluded from insurable employment under paragraph 1(a) or (c) becomes a regular employment, the employment is insurable employment beginning on the day or at the hour, as the case may be, that the employment become a regular employment.

(3) Where a person has been employed by the same employer in one or more employments that have been excluded from insurable employment under paragraph 1(a) and the total period of those employments exceeds six days in the same year, the employments, taken together, are insurable employment beginning on the day when total period of employment began.

(4) Where a person has been employed by the same employer in one or more employments that have been excluded from insurable employment under paragraph 1(c) and the total period of those employments exceeds 34 hours in the same year, the employmets, taken together, are insurable employment beginning at the hour when the total period of employment began.

COMING INTO FORCE

2. These Regulations come into force on January 1, 1999.

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¹SOR/96-332