CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY

Canadian Public Policy

Canadian Public Policy

Introduction

Employment Insurance provides temporary financial assistance to unemployed Canadians who lost their jobs through no fault, while they look for work or upgrade their skills. EI also helps sick workers, pregnant women and parents caring for a newborn or adopted child, as well as those who must care for a their families suffering from a serious disease that can cause death. Since 1996, the unemployment insurance was renamed employment insurance. There are rumors circulating in Latin America that the Canadian government keeps its residents or citizens unemployed. The welfare consists of small amounts of money to help people who are not eligible for employment insurance. Provincial governments are responsible for the welfare program in their territories and the requirements to qualify for this assistance vary from province to province. The amounts granted by the welfare system are extremely low for living well (e.g. in 2006, the Edmonton Journal newspaper in Alberta reported that a single person with two children can receive social welfare assistance $ 1.030 per month).

Discussion and Analysis

Employment Insurance

Canadian Employment Insurance is a mechanism to assist people who lose jobs due to force, i.e., they lose their jobs without cause and may be a reduction in staff, closure of a manufacturing plant, temporary work such as fishing, bankruptcy of a company, etc. (Regular Benefits Can Be Paid if you lose your job-through no fault of your own for example, due to Shortage of work, seasonal or mass lay-offs and You are available for and Able to work But you cannot find a job) (Shearmur, Polese, 2005). There is also a variation of unemployment insurance to assist mothers and fathers who leave their jobs for motherhood, to assist people also have to stop work for health reasons (Maternity / Parental Benefits Are Paid to Individuals Who are pregnant , Have Given birth recently, plow Are Adopting a child or caring for a new-born.

Sickness Benefits Are Paid to Those Who Are Unable to work due to sickness, injury, quarantine or.) and, also there is a variation of insurance for people who want to stop working for some time to attend to a family member with a serious disease with a significant risk of dying (Compassionate Care Benefits Are Paid To Personalities Who Have to Be Temporarily away from work to care Provide or support to a family member is Who gravely ill with a Significant Risk of death) (Shearmur, Polese, 2005). The money received by the employment insurance does not cover one hundred percent of salary that is no longer perceived and received an unlimited time. The amount received varies depending on the site in Canada where he resides. The basic benefit amount is based on a percentage of normal salary.

By 2006 this percentage is 55% of salary but up to $ 413 dollars a week (for guidance, consider that the average weekly income of Canadians in 2005 was $ 805). Obviously, this amount is only a help while the unemployed person finds another ...