An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (single qualification period and benefit period increase for workers 45 years of age or more)

This bill is from the 38th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in November 2005.

Sponsor

Yvon Godin  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Oct. 3, 2005
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-482 (37th Parliament, 3rd session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (benefit period increase in the case of permanent layoffs of workers over 45 years of age)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-421s:

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C-421 (2009) Emergency Services Appreciation Day Act

Employment Insurance ActRoutine Proceedings

October 3rd, 2005 / 3:25 p.m.


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NDP

Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-421, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (single qualification period and benefit period increase for workers 45 years of age or more).

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for Sackville—Eastern Shore.

It is a pleasure for me to introduce today five bills on employment insurance.

I hope that the members of this House will learn about these bills and support them. The current EI program no longer meets the needs of Canadian workers. These bills will fix some of the deficiencies in this program.

The first bill is entitled Employment Insurance Act (single qualification period and benefit period increase for workers 45 years of age or more).

This enactment amends the EI Act by removing the different qualification period for new entrants or re-entrants into the labour force. It also increases the benefit period for claimants who are laid off permanently after 10 years or more in the labour force and are over 45 years of age.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)