In Canada unemployment insurance is run strictly by the federal government, and the provinces have nothing to do with it. Employees pay into the insurance fund as a compulsory payroll deduction. If they lost their job through no fault of their own, they are eligible for 55% of regular pay for about a year, to a max of about $2,400 per month. Family size is not a factor.
Employees who quit “without cause” are not eligible (although quitting, for example, because of sexual harassment could qualify as “just cause.”)
Employees fired “for cause” are not eligible either -- with “cause” determined by a large body of laws, regulations and precedents. Cause includes things like documented poor performance, unauthorized absences or repeated lateness. Disputes are adjudicated by a network of professional “referees.”
Today Canadian Broadcasting news reported that the federal minister has decided that losing a job for refusing an employer’s “vaccination mandate” is the came as quitting without cause or being fired with cause, and renders the employee ineligible for benefits.
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I deleted the original poll after the first ten replies because the wording in one of the answers was confusing and ambiguous. Revised wording below