employment insurance

Andrew Cash: Until now, it’s been acceptable for employers and governments to shrug off any responsibility for freelancers, contract, gig workers

The budget addressed employment insurance, daycare and affordable housing and jobs for your children.

While Western provinces have been hit hard by lower oil prices, federal money for retraining unemployed workers has failed to keep pace

Changing EI parental leave provisions may change the season of births in Canada and the distribution of health, education, and development outcomes

Getting sick is something we all face. But, what happens to you in such a situation depends very much on where you work and who you work for.

The Liberals propose dusting off an old EI-reform program that would avoid the flaws in the government’s Small Business Jobs Credit

The Harper government’s new boutique tax credit makes it better for some companies to fire workers or cut their pay than to hire new ones

Reducing payroll taxes, like EI premiums, is good policy. Too bad that’s not what the Harper government chose to do.

When party discipline transcends federal-provincial distinctions

The Finance Minister is listening apparently