An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (amounts not included in earnings)

This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.

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. 16, 2007
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment provides that pension benefits, vacation pay and severance payments are not to be included in earnings under the Employment Insurance Act and therefore will not reduce benefits under the Act.

Similar bills

C-279 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (amounts not included in earnings)
C-364 (39th Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (amounts not included in earnings)
C-350 (38th Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (amounts not included in earnings)

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-364s:

C-364 (2023) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sentencing)
C-364 (2017) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act (political financing)
C-364 (2013) Holidays Harmonization Act
C-364 (2011) Holidays Harmonization Act
C-364 (2010) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (no GST on bicycles, adult tricycles and related goods and services)
C-364 (2009) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (no GST on bicycles, adult tricycles and related goods and services)

Employment Insurance ActRoutine Proceedings

October 25th, 2006 / 3:20 p.m.


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NDP

Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-364, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (amounts not included in earnings).

Mr. Speaker, I would first like to thank the hon. member for Vancouver Island North for having seconded the motion.

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that pension benefits, vacation pay and severance payments are not included in earnings under the Employment Insurance Act and therefore will not reduce benefits under the act.

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