Translation of "Prestation ordinaire d'assurance-emploi " (French → English) :

Canada's Economic Action Plan will help workers who have been hit by the global recession by increasing for two years all regular Employment Insurance benefit entitlements by an extra five weeks; providing $500 million over two years to extend EI income benefits for Canadians participating in longer-term training; extending work-sharing agreements by 14 weeks to a maximum of 52 weeks so more Canadians can continue working; helping young Canadians find summer jobs by investing $55 million over two years; supporting older workers and their families with an additional $60 million over three years for the Targeted Initiative for Older Workers; extending the Wage Earner Protection Program to cover severance and ...[+++]termination pay owed to eligible workers impacted by employers' bankruptcy; consulting with Canadians and developing options to provide self-employed Canadians with access to EI, maternity and paternity benefits; and, finally, boosting funding for training delivered through EI by $1 billion over two years.

1. By way of derogation from Article 65, a wholly unemployed person who, as a frontier worker, has most recently completed periods of insurance as a self-employed person or periods of self-employment recognised for the purposes of granting unemployment benefits in a Member State other than his/her Member State of residence and whose Member State of residence has submitted notification that there is no possibility for any category of self-employed persons to be covered by an unemployment benefits system of that Member State, shall register with and make himself/herself available to the employment services in the Member State in which he/she pursued his/her last activity as a self-employed person and, when he/she applies for benefits, shall c ...[+++]ontinuously adhere to the conditions laid down under the legislation of the latter Member State. The wholly unemployed person may, as a supplementary step, make himself/herself available to the employment services of the Member State of residence.

(1) Concerning employment incentives (labour supply channel), measures implemented by Member States have focussed on: (i) limiting the amount (Spain) or the length (Germany) of the unemployment benefit that can be perceived; (ii) unifying the unemployment insurance with the social assistance benefits; (iii) giving incentives for young people (Finland) or for new hires covering youths and adults over 25 who had not been employed on a permanent basis (Italy); (iv) making conditional activation complements (subsistence allowance) to job search and participation in active measures after a certain period of unemployment (Finland); and (v) ...[+++] using in-work benefits, i.e., employment conditional tax-credits and benefits and other provisions of similar purpose.

Whereas, moreover, the current restrictions on the granting of family benefits should be abolished, and whereas in order to ensure payment of benefits for the maintenance of the members of separated families, leaving aside those benefits aimed largely at encouraging an increase in population, it would be preferable to lay down rules common to all the Member States and efforts should continue to this end; but in the face of great variations between national legislations a solution should be adopted to take this situation into account: payment of family benefits of the country of employment in respect of five countries, and payment of fam ...[+++]ily allowances of the country of residence of members of the family where the country of employment is France;

1. The competent institution of a Member State whose legislation makes the acquiçsition, retention or recovery of the right to benefits subject to the completion of insurance periods shall takes into account, to the extent necessary, periods of insurance or employment completed under the legislation of any other Member States, as though they were periods completed under the legislation with it administers, provided, however, that the periods of employment would have been counted as insurance periods had they been completed under that legislation.

2. Where the legislation of a Member State makes the granting of certain benefits conditional upon the insurance periods having been completed in an completion of insurance periods shall take account to where appropriate, in a specific employment, insurance periods completed under the legislations of other Member States shall be taken into account for the granting of these benefits only if completed under a corresponding scheme or, failing this, in the same occupation or, where appropriate, in the same employment.