Cancelled EI Program Leaves Some Students Scrambling
Students continue to call on the New Brunswick government to reinstate NB-EI Connect after it was slashed without warning late last month.
Students continue to call on the New Brunswick government to reinstate NB-EI Connect after it was slashed without warning late last month.
To design EI properly, Krista Ross says the government should focus on its fundamentals – an insurance system for a limited and temporary purpose.
Opinion: Employment Insurance should agressively focus on finding people jobs and getting them back to work. Not, as we have today, an income supplement for many seasonal workers who don’t want to work in the off-season.
UNB Saint John Students’ Representative Council claims “thousands of students will be going into post-secondary education financially vulnerable this upcoming semester with no alternatives to fall back on.”
Opinion: New Brunswick’s recently cancelled student employment insurance program wasn’t effective. It was part of a larger problem with New Brunswick’s EI program that has drifted too far from its original purpose.
David Campbell says seasonal unemployment continues to be an issue in many parts of the province.
An Atlantic Canadian economist says the region is facing a potential crisis in its seasonal labour force—and that Employment Insurance programs might be making it worse.
Fredericton Chamber of Commerce CEO Krista Ross asks, with businesses across all sectors facing labour shortages, is it the right time to reform employment insurance to make it more “accessible”?
Even outside of Covid-19, New Brunswickers’ use of the Employment Insurance program hasn’t changed much in the past 20 years, says David Campbell.
We will have 25-30 per cent Employment Insurance usage in this province – and in some communities 40-50 per cent usage – in perpetuity until the federal government changes the program, says David Campbell.