Employment Insurance Regulations - Part I - Unemployment Benefits
Current EI (Main) Regulations
PART I
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
Employed Person Working a Full Working Week—Special Cases
(a) is a railway employee;(2) Notwithstanding section 31, a claimant who is employed in farming or horticulture is considered to have worked a full working week during any week in which the claimant works
(b) is remunerated on a mileage basis; and
(c) is remunerated in that two-week period at not less than twice the maximum weekly insurable earnings.
(a) not less than five days; and(3) Where, in any week, a claimant does not work on a holiday or, by reason of a holiday, does not work on the working day that immediately precedes or immediately follows that holiday, the claimant shall be regarded as having worked a full working week if, on each of the remaining working days in that week, the claimant works a number of hours at least equal to the number that the claimant would normally work.
(b) not less than 35 hours in total.
(4) Where an insured person is employed under a contract of employment under which the usual remuneration is payable in respect of a period greater than a week, regardless of the amount of work performed in the period, each week that falls wholly in that period is a full working week for the person.