PART II

EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

(a) harmonization with provincial employment initiatives to ensure that there is no unnecessary overlap or duplication;

(b) reduction of dependency on unemployment benefits by helping individuals obtain or keep employment;

(c) co-operation and partnership with other governments, employers, community-based organizations and other interested organizations;

(d) flexibility to allow significant decisions about implementation to be made at a local level;

(e) commitment by persons receiving assistance under the benefits and measures to

(i) achieving the goals of the assistance,

(ii) taking primary responsibility for identifying their employment needs and locating services necessary to allow them to meet those needs, and

(iii) if appropriate, sharing the cost of the assistance; and

(f) implementation of the benefits and measures within a framework for evaluating their success in assisting persons to obtain or keep employment.

(a) for whom a benefit period is established or whose benefit period has ended within the previous 36 months; or

(b) for whom a benefit period has been established in the previous 60 months and who

(i) was paid special benefits under section 22 or 23 during the benefit period,

(ii) subsequently withdrew from active participation in the labour force to care for one or more of their new-born children or one or more children placed with them for the purpose of adoption, and

(iii) is seeking to re-enter the labour force.

(a) encourage employers to hire them;

(b) encourage them to accept employment by offering incentives such as temporary earnings supplements;

(c) help them start businesses or become self-employed;

(d) provide them with employment opportunities through which they can gain work experience to improve their long-term employment prospects; and

(e) help them obtain skills for employment, ranging from basic to advanced skills.

(a) collect information concerning employment for workers and workers seeking employment and, to the extent the Commission considers necessary, make the information available with a view to assisting workers to obtain employment for which they are suited and assisting employers to obtain workers most suitable to their needs; and

(b) ensure that in referring a worker seeking employment there will be no discrimination on a prohibited ground of discrimination within the meaning of the Canadian Human Rights Act or because of political affiliation, but nothing in this paragraph prohibits the national employment service from giving effect to

(i) any limitation, specification or preference based on a bona fide occupational requirement, or

(ii) any special program, plan or arrangement mentioned in section 16 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

(a) organizations that provide employment assistance services to unemployed persons;

(b) employers, employee or employer associations and communities in developing and implementing strategies for dealing with labour force adjustments and meeting human resource requirements; and

(c) research and innovative projects to identify better ways of helping persons prepare for, return to or keep employment and be productive participants in the labour force.

(a) provide assistance for employed persons unless they are facing a loss of their employment; or

(b) provide direct federal government assistance for the provision of labour market training without the agreement of the government of the province in which the assistance is provided.

(a) grants or contributions;

(b) loans or loan guarantees;

(c) payments for any service provided at the request of the Commission; and

(d) vouchers to be exchanged for services and payments for the provision of the services.

(a) payments to a public or private educational institution for providing a course or program of instruction or training at the request of the Commission under employment benefits authorized by paragraph 59(e); and

(b) payments to a province in respect of the course or program if it is provided by a public educational institution and there is an agreement between the government of the province and the Commission to remunerate the province for all or part of the cost of providing the course or program.

(a) a loan to the person;

(b) an amount paid on a guarantee of a loan made to the person; and

(c) an amount paid to the person to which the person is not entitled.

PART III

PREMIUMS AND OTHER FINANCIAL MATTERS

Premiums

(a) ensure that there will be enough revenue over a business cycle to pay the amounts authorized to be charged to the Employment Insurance Account; and

(b) maintain relatively stable rate levels throughout the business cycle.

(a) the payment of any allowances, money or other benefits because of illness, injury, quarantine, pregnancy or child care under a plan that covers insured persons employed by the employer, other than one established under provincial law, would have the effect of reducing the special benefits payable to the insured persons; and

(b) the insured persons will benefit from the reduction of the employer's premium in an amount at least equal to 5/12 of the reduction.

(a) prescribing the manner and time for making an application for a premium reduction;

(b) prescribing the standards that must be met by a plan to qualify for a premium reduction and the time during which the plan must be in effect;

(c) prescribing the method for determining the amount of reduction for plans that meet the prescribed standards and the use to be made of actuarial calculations and estimates;

(d) prescribing the manner in which insured persons are to benefit from the premium reduction;

(e) providing for the making of decisions relating to premium reduction and appeals in cases of dispute;

(f) prescribing how the insured earnings of insured persons will be reported by employers to the Department of National Revenue; and

(g) generally, providing for any other matters necessary for carrying out the purposes and provisions of subsections (1) and (2).