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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Shafting the working class

Unemployed? Good luck getting EI as eligibility hits all-time low

"Just 36.6% of unemployed workers are receiving Employment Insurance -- an all-time low in Canada, according to the latest government statistics.

The new milestone, calculated by comparing the number of regular EI beneficiaries in the latest Statistics Canada report with the number of unemployed workers from the Labour Force Survey, follows a series of policy changes over the last two decades that have made acc...ess to benefits increasingly difficult."

http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/unemployed-good-luck-getting-ei-eligibility-hits-all-time-low-0

I don't know about you but I find it very offensive and questionable as to why the Conservative government would insist that employees pay premiums toward UI then make it extremely difficult to qualify for a program that you paid into.

What are the Harper seals doing with the overage. Are they using it to finance corporations? Or are they buying down their bungled deficit?

The over 50 crowd should be living in fear of the Reform-a-Cons subjecting them to a means test when they apply for their pensions while the younger workers will find that they are required to go to corporate insurers for their medical insurance.

 

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