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e-4904 (Employment and labour)
E-petition
Initiated by Fanny Labelle from Montréal, Quebec
Original language of petition: French
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
- Canadian women assume the vast majority of family responsibilities and make up the majority of single-parent families;
- Canadian women already face a job market where they are at a disadvantage in terms of salary, type of employment and promotion opportunities;
- Canadian women take almost all the weeks of parental benefits following the birth of a child; under the current provisions of the Employment Insurance Act, Canadian women who lose their jobs while on maternity leave, or too soon afterwards, are denied Employment Insurance regular benefits;
- This situation affects some 3,000 women a year, pushing them into vulnerable situations, poverty and economic dependence.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canadato put an end to this disadvantageous situation for Canadian women by amending the Employment Insurance Act by:
1. Abolishing the 50-week stacking rule. (s. 12(6) EIA); and
2. Extending the 52-week benefit period (s. 10(2) EIA) by including maternity/parental benefits as grounds for extending (s. 10(10) EIA) the benefit period to 104 weeks, as is already the case in other situations (s. 10(14) EIA).
- Open for signature
- March 27, 2024, at 2:40 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- July 25, 2024, at 2:40 p.m. (EDT)
