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Bill C-215

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 29, 2023
An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
  • Bill C-215 is a proposed amendment to the Employment Insurance Act in Canada. It aims to increase the maximum number of weeks for which benefits can be paid due to illness, injury, or quarantine from 15 to 52 weeks. This means that individuals who are unable to work for an extended period due to these reasons will have access to financial support for a longer duration. The bill is in its initial stages and has passed the first reading in the House of Commons.
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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament,

70 Elizabeth II, 2021

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-215
An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)
FIRST READING, December 15, 2021

Mr. Gourde
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SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Employment Insurance Act to increase from 15 to 52 the maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid because of illness, injury or quarantine.

Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
www.ourcommons.ca


1st Session, 44th Parliament,

70 Elizabeth II, 2021

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-215

An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine)

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1996, c. 23

Employment Insurance Act

1 Paragraph 12(3)‍(c) of the Employment Insurance Act is replaced by the following:

  • (c) because of a prescribed illness, injury or quarantine is Insertion start 52 Insertion end ;

2 Paragraph 152.‍14(1)‍(c) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (c) because of a prescribed illness, injury or quarantine is Insertion start 52 Insertion end ;

Coordinating Amendment

2021, c. 23

3 (1) In this section, other Act means the Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1.‍

(2) If section 1 of this Act comes into force before subsection 307(2) of the other Act, then that subsection 307(2) and section 323 of the other Act are repealed.

(3) If subsection 307(2) of the other Act comes into force on the same day as section 1 of this Act, then

  • (a) that subsection 307(2) is deemed to have come into force before that section 1; and

  • (b) section 323 of the other Act is deemed to have come into force before section 2 of this Act.

Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons