Employment Insurance

The Canada Revenue Agency has temporarily suspended its online services after two cyberattacks in which hackers used thousands of stolen usernames and passwords to fraudulently obtain government services and compromise Canadians' personal information.

The federal government plans to move as many out-of-work Canadians into the employment insurance system when a key emergency benefit runs out in the fall, and provide an EI-like support for millions who can't qualify under existing rules.

How Parliament should function in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis remained unresolved on Monday, May 25, 2020, as the Conservatives dug in on their demand that the House of Commons resume normal operations with a reduced number of MPs in the chamber.

In the time of the novel coronavirus, Canada and the United States seem to be playing to type: the friendly apologizers of the Great White North coming together against a common enemy, America's combative revolutionaries threatening to tear each other apart.

Canadians will get a double-barrelled blast of grim news today, April 9, 2020: the first jobless numbers since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered businesses from coast to coast as well as the first national picture of how bad the crisis could get and how long it could last.

The House of Commons will reconvene on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, to vote on measures aimed at easing the burden of COVID-19 on individuals and businesses.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is urging the federal government to immediately begin accepting applications for emergency financial aid from Canadians struggling during the COVID-19 crisis.

A union official says Air Canada is laying off more than 5,000 flight attendants as the country's largest airline cuts routes and parks planes due to COVID-19.

With public health authorities urging all Canadians to stay home as much as they can and practice social distancing, everyone should be staying focused primarily on their health, rather than their bank accounts, said the prime minister.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is expected to soon announce the federal government's plan to help workers affected by COVID-19.

Concerns about his own exposure to COVID-19 forced Justin Trudeau to cancel a face-to-face meeting with first ministers but he'll still get an earful — over the phone on Friday, March 13, 2020, — from premiers demanding massive federal aid to confront the health and economic impacts of the novel coronavirus.

Canada's largest labour organization and the group that bills itself as the voice of business in this country have set aside their differences to jointly confront the economic fallout from the rampaging novel coronavirus — and they're hoping premiers can do the same when they meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Newly released documents show that top government officials believe there is no imminent threat that artificial intelligence and robots will displace large segments of the Canadian workforce.

The NDP is proposing a package of measures to combat climate change, ranging from subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles to easier access to employment insurance for workers in industries threatened by the move away from fossil fuels.

Canadians could soon be putting $250 a year in federal tax credits toward better skills, while getting federal help to pay the bills.