Federal Government Extends EI Sickness Benefits And Unpaid Leave Under The Canada Labour Code – Employee Benefits & Compensation

The Federal Authorities introduced the extension of EI illness
advantages from 15 to 26 weeks and a rise of obtainable unpaid
medical go away from 17 to 27 weeks for federally regulated non-public
sector workers underneath the Canada Labour Code.

Each extensions are set to start on December 18, 2022. The
Authorities announcement is out there
here.

EI Illness Advantages

Staff who qualify for EI illness advantages and set up a
new declare on or after December 18, 2022, will be capable to obtain up
to 26 weeks of EI illness advantages if they’re sick and require
this time to get well.

EI illness advantages are paid at 55% of the applicant’s
common weekly insurable earnings, as much as a most entitlement of
$638 per week for 2022. To qualify, claimants of EI illness
advantages should reveal that:

• they’re unable to work for medical causes;
• their common weekly earnings from work have decreased by extra
  than 40% for at the least one week;
• they amassed at the least 600 insured hours of labor within the final
  52 weeks earlier than the beginning of their declare, or because the begin of
  their final declare, whichever is shorts; and
• if it weren’t for his or her medical situation, they might
  in any other case be accessible for work.

Moreover, claimants should get hold of a medical certificates signed
by a medical practitioner. The medical practitioner should practise
in Canada or america and the sickness they’re treating
have to be of their area. The next medical practitioners can
full and signal a claimant’s medical certificates:

• medical physician;
• chiropractor;
• optometrist;
• psychologist;
• dentist;
• midwife (besides in Prince Edward Island);
• nurse practitioner; and
• registered nurse (in remoted areas when a health care provider is
  unavailable).

Unpaid Medical Go away

The Federal Authorities additionally introduced a rise in accessible
unpaid medical go away underneath the Canada Labour Code from 17
weeks to 27 weeks.

That is along with the ten days of paid sick go away for
federally regulated workers that comes into power on December 1,
2022. Our article on these new paid sick go away days could be discovered
right here.

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