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Employment Insurance Act - Part I - Unemployment Benefits
Current Version of the Employment Insurance Act
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PART I
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
| Definitions | 6. (1) In this Part, |
| "disentitled" | "disentitled" means not entitled under section 13, 18, 21, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 49 or 50 or under |
| "disqualified" | "disqualified" means disqualified under section 27 or 30 |
| "initial claim for benefits" | "initial claim for benefits" means a claim made for the purpose of establishing a claimant's benefit period; |
| "major attachment claimant" | "major attachment claimant" means a claimant who qualifies to receive benefits and has 600 or more hours of insurable employment in their qualifying period; |
| "minor attachment claimant" | "minor attachment claimant" means a claimant who qualifies to receive benefits and has fewer than 600 hours of insurable employment in their qualifying period; |
| "qualifying period" | "qualifying period" means the period described in section 8; |
| "waiting period" | "waiting period" means the two weeks of the benefit period described in section 13. |
| Rounding off percentages or fractions | (2) A reference in this Part to an amount equal to a percentage or fraction of earnings or benefits in a period shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of one dollar or, if the amount is equidistant from two multiples of one dollar, to the higher multiple. |
| Hours of insurable employment | (3) For the purposes of this Part, the number of hours of insurable employment that a claimant has in any period shall be established as provided under section 55, subject to any regulations made under paragraph 54(z.1) allocating the hours to the claimant's qualifying period. 1996 c. 23, .s. 6; 2000, c. 14, s. 2 |
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