An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (length of benefit period)

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 increases the duration of benefits, first by providing that a week in which at least 15 hours were worked counts as a week of insurable employment, and second by providing that every 30 hours of the total hours worked counts as a week of insurable employment.

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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-370s:

C-370 (2023) Bringing Home Justice for Victims of Serious Crimes Act
C-370 (2017) VIA Rail Canada Act
C-370 (2011) Law An Act to amend the Canada National Parks Act (St. Lawrence Islands National Park of Canada)
C-370 (2010) An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (mandatory labelling for genetically modified foods)
C-370 (2009) An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (mandatory labelling for genetically modified foods)

Employment Insurance ActRoutine Proceedings

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


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NDP

Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-370, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (length of benefit period).

Mr. Speaker, this bill increases the duration of benefits, first by providing that a week in which at least 15 hours were worked counts as a week of insurable employment, and second by providing that every 30 hours of the total hours worked counts as a week of insurable employment.

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