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Making It Work, the latest report from the Mowat Centre at the University of Toronto, has taken aim at Canada’s system of Employment Insurance (EI), one of the cornerstone’s of Canada’s welfare state system.
Riddled with “systemic inequities” and “regional political considerations,” the EI system as we currently understand it is not so much broken, as some have suggested, but caters to regional labour situations as they existed in the 1970s. The result is a system with uneven standards and payouts that workers, employers, and entire labour fields have gotten remarkably efficient at advantage of.
The Globe and Mail points out that the EI program was built for a job market that existed more three decades ago, “when workers spent most of their careers with one employer.” But in today’s Canada, workers are far more transient and likely to change jobs, work . . . → Read More: the reeves report: Mowat Centre report finds current EI system riddled with “systemic inequities”