An interruption of earnings occurs when a person is laid off or separated from his or her employment and, has a period of seven or more consecutive days during which no work is performed for that employer and no earnings arise from that employment.
Subsection 14(1) Employment Insurance Regulations
Where a person stops working because of illness, injury, quarantine, pregnancy or the need to care for a child or children, an interruption of earnings occurs at the beginning of the week in which a reduction of more than forty percent in the person's normal weekly earnings occurs.
Subsection 14(2) Employment Insurance Regulations
Where a claimant is, pursuant to his or her contract of service, entitled to a period of leave, he or she shall not be regarded as having had an interruption of earnings.
Subsection 14(3) Employment Insurance Regulations
Subsection 11(4) Employment Insurance Act
Claimants who are real estate agents will not be considered to have suffered an interruption of earnings until their license to sell real estate is surrendered, suspended or revoked or, they stop working as a real estate agent because of illness, injury, quarantine, pregnancy or the need to care for a child or children.
Subsection 14(5)(a) Employment Insurance Regulations
Claimants who are employed under a contract of employment and whose earnings consist mainly of commissions suffer an interruption of earnings when the contract of employment is terminated or the claimant stops working in that employment because of illness, injury, quarantine, pregnancy or the need to care for a child or children.
Subsection 14(5)(b) Employment Insurance Regulations
Claimants who take a period of leave from their employment under an agreement with their employer and, who continue to be an employee of the employer and, who receive remuneration that was set aside during a period of work, shall not be considered to have suffered an interruption of earnings regardless of the time or manner in which the remuneration is paid.
Subsection 14(6) Employment Insurance Regulations
Subsection 11(3) Employment Insurance Act
Claimants who are pregnant or who are breast-feeding, and who accept less remunerative work with their employer because the continuation of their work represents a physical danger to them, to their unborn child or the child they are breast-feeding, and who, as a result, receive a wage supplement under a provincial law, suffer an interruption of earnings on their last day of work before the beginning of the less remunerative work.
Subsection 14(7) Employment Insurance Regulations
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2009-04-28