Support for Volunteer Firefighters Act

An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code and the Employment Insurance Act (volunteer firefighters)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Christine Moore  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. 1, 2014
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canada Labour Code to prohibit reprisals against volunteer firefighters who must be absent from their work place or fail to appear at work in order to act in that capacity.
It also amends the Employment Insurance Act to provide that claimants remain eligible for any period during which they provide eligible services as a volunteer firefighter.

Similar bills

C-215 (42nd Parliament, 1st session) Support for Volunteer Firefighters Act
C-504 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) Support for Volunteer Firefighters Act
C-504 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Support for Volunteer Firefighters Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from 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-630s:

C-630 (2011) Canadian Cord Blood Collection Act