{"id":19142,"date":"2020-07-31T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/trudeau-says-feds-will-create-ei-like-benefit-for-gig-contract-workers-148528"},"modified":"2020-07-31T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:15:07","slug":"trudeau-says-feds-will-create-ei-like-benefit-for-gig-contract-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/07\/31\/trudeau-says-feds-will-create-ei-like-benefit-for-gig-contract-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau says feds will create EI like benefit for gig, contract workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Justin-Trudeau.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Trudeau says feds will create EI like benefit for gig, contract workers\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>The Canadian Press<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;July 31, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government plans to move out-of-work Canadians into the employment insurance system and provide parallel support for millions set to exhaust emergency pandemic aid who don\u2019t have EI to fall back on.<\/p>\n<p>The $80-billion&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/feds-to-provide-increased-benefit-for-canadians-out-of-work-due-to-coronavirus-144281\">Canada Emergency Response Benefit<\/a> is set to wind down over the coming weeks, with those who are EI-eligible to start drawing assistance that way.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Friday morning, Trudeau said many people who don\u2019t qualify for the program, such as gig or contract workers, will gain access to a transitional, parallel benefit that is similar to EI. It will also include access to training and the ability to work more hours without having as steep a clawback in benefit payments,&nbsp;he said, noting more details will be unveiled at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/coronavirus-emergency-response-benefit-doesnt-go-far-enough-say-gig-workers-144712\">Coronavirus emergency response benefit doesn\u2019t go far enough, say gig workers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most recent figures on the CERB&nbsp;showed that, as of July 26, the government had paid out $62.75 billion in benefits to 8.46 million unique applicants since its launch. About half those costs have gone to EI-eligible workers, leaving millions who don\u2019t pay into EI unable to access the program once the emergency benefit ends. \u201cNo one will be left behind,\u201d promised Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/trudeau-says-feds-will-create-ei-like-benefit-for-gig-contract-workers-148528\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press&nbsp;|&nbsp;July 31, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government plans to move out-of-work Canadians into the employment insurance system and provide parallel support for millions set to exhaust emergency pandemic aid&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}