Despite budget moves, EI changes not permanent, big enough: MPs, experts

The budget included extensions of many COVID-19-era policies and a planned two-year consultation, but was overall a 'damp squib' for EI changes, says the Canadian Labour Congress' Chris Roberts.

Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough, pictured right with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland in August 2020, was directed by the prime minister in her January mandate letter to bring about a plan to modernize the country’s employment insurance system. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ALICE CHEN

June 2, 2021

Experts and advocates hoping that temporary employment insurance change would snowball into longer lasting, more permanent restructuring and reform say they've been left wanting and still waiting by the federal government. Changes to the employment insurance system were signalled in Employment Mini...

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