BILL NO. 83
(as introduced)
1st Session, 65th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
3 Charles III, 2025
Private Member's Public Bill
Employment Insurance Top-up Act
Paul Wozney
Sackville–Cobequid
First Reading: March 18, 2025
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
An Act to Protect
Nova Scotia Workers from Tariffs
through Employment Insurance Top-ups
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Employment Insurance Top-up Act.
"employment insurance benefits" means benefits under the Employment Insurance Act (Canada);
"Minister" means the Minister of Labour, Skills and Immigration;
"program" means the Nova Scotia Employment Insurance Top-up Program.
3 (1) Subject to Section 6, the Nova Scotia Employment Insurance Top-up Program is established.
(2) Under the program, the Minister shall provide a top-up payment to any resident of the Province who is in receipt of employment insurance benefits and who receives less than $600 per week in such benefits.
(3) The top-up payment that a recipient is entitled to receive under the program for each week is calculated by subtracting the amount of employment insurance benefits that the recipient receives per week from $600.
4 The program ends one year from the day on which this Act comes into force, unless, before the end of the one-year period, the Minister orders that the program end on a later day.
5 The Minister shall make reasonable efforts to reach an agreement with the Government of Canada that would allow payments made under the program to be administered though the Government of Canada's payment system for employment insurance benefits and allow employment insurance benefits and payments made under the program to be paid simultaneously.
6 The money required for the purpose of this Act must be paid out of money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.
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