Bill C-287

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First Reading

	1nd Session, 35th Parliament, 42-43 Elizabeth II, 1994
	The House of Commons of Canada
	BILL C-287
	An Act to amend the Department of Labour Act (eligibility for assistance for long-service employees)
R.S., c. L-3; 1989, c. 5	Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
	*1. (1) Subsection 5(1) of The Department of Labour Act* is replaced by the following:**
Assistance for long-service employees	5. (1) Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, the Minister may enter into agreements with provincial governments, employers, employer organizations, employees, employee organizations, financial institutions or such other persons or entities as the Minister considers appropriate, for the purpose of making provision for periodic income assistance payments to
	(a) former employees at an establishment or establishments of an employer whose em ployment has been terminated, at any time since December 31, 1987, by reason of the permanent dismissal of a total of at least twenty employees from one or more estab lishments of the employer who, at the time of the termination, were emgaged in an identifiable economic activity in one or more establishments of the employer and were fifty-five years of age or more but less than sixty-five years of age; or
	(b) former employees at an establishment or establishments of an employer in an indus try that was a designated industry on August 12, 1986 whose employment has been terminated, at any time since the industry ceased to be a designated industry, by reason of the permanent dismissal of a total of at least twenty employees from one or more establishments of the employer who, at the time of the termination, were en gaged in an identifiable economic activity in one or more establishments of the employer and were fifty-five years of age or more but less than sixty-five years of age or, in the case of a reduction taking effect before October 6, 1988, were persons less than sixty-five years of age, but whose combined age and length of service in designated industries was not less than eighty years.
	(2) Subsection 5(2) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Existing agreements	(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Minister, as soon as possible, shall rescind any agreement entered into under subsection (1) which does not meet the conditions set out in subsection (1) or which provides for conditions other than those set out in subsection (1).
New agreement	(3) Where the Minister, before the coming into force of the Act, enters into an agreement which does not meet the conditions set out in subsection (1), the Minister and the other contracting party may enter into a new agreement which meets these conditions, and in this case the new agreement shall come into force on a date agreed upon by the parties.
Retroactive effect	(4) The agreement referred to in subsection (1) or (3) may provide that it will have retroactive effect.
Definition of ``designated industry''	(5 ) In paragraph (1)(b), ``designated industry'' means an industry designated pursuant to section 3 of the Labour Adjustment Benefits Act.