Summary of Issue: Provincial Program


Decision A-0486.95 Full Text of Decision A-0486.95

summary
Issue: Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
earnings income provincial program
Summary:

Held by Umpire that the maximum payment of $5,000 made to employees under the Ontario Employee Wage Protection Program by reason of the plant closure is exempt from earnings as being relief grants pursuant to Reg. 57(3)(c). Decision overturned by the FCA who found that the Program is essentially an unfunded insurance scheme intended to compensate all employees in Ontario in the event that their employer does not meet its obligations under provincial law in respect of unpaid wages, v.p., sev. pay, etc.

other summary
Other Issue(s): Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
earnings income arising out of any employment
earnings allocation from week of layoff
earnings income wage protection program
earnings relief grants

Decision A-0500.95 Full Text of Decision A-0500.95

summary
Issue: Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
earnings income provincial program
Summary:

Case similar to FCA in King (A-0486.95). Refer to summary indexed.

other summary
Other Issue(s): Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
earnings income arising out of any employment
earnings allocation from week of layoff
earnings income wage protection program
earnings relief grants

Decision 26685 Full Text of Decision 26685

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Issue: Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
earnings income provincial program
Summary:

Amount of $600 paid under New Brunswick's program of lump-sum payments to municipal employees whose low salary scale is frozen. Held that this amount to be allocated in accordance with para. 58(18)(a) of the Regulations, not para. 58(18)(b), as it was difficult to speak of "operations".

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