January 6, 2012
The federal government launched an EI rate setting review to find out how to avoid surpluses or deficits while ensuring that the program breaks even over time. CFIB’s President presented to the panel how EI rate setting can be improved in order to have stable rates.
October 31, 2011
A new federal bill, C-317 (introduced by Conservative MP Russ Hiebert) aims to get labour unions to be more transparent in how they spend their union dues. CFIB writes a letter to Mr. Hiebert to provide our support for the bill in a larger fight to bring accountability and transparency in union practices.
August 10, 2011
Given the small increase in Employment Insurance (EI) in 2011, CFIB’s top budget request was an EI credit to encourage new hiring and offset increasing payroll taxes.
November 1, 2010
House of Commons had a debate over a bill C-386 that proposed a ban on the use of replacement workers in federally regulated workplaces.
October 5, 2010
In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ministers Stockwell Day and Jim Flaherty; the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is calling on the federal government to reconsider their tentative agreement with some major federal public service unions to increase wages by 5.3 per cent over the next three years.
September 21, 2010
After calling for a freeze of Employment Insurance (EI) rates in 2012, small business owners can breathe a half sigh of collective relief with an announcement by the federal government to lower the expected Employment Insurance (EI) premium rate increase by half.
October 9, 2009
The debate over how to reform the Employment Insurance (EI) system became an important issue in Ottawa last June, as the Liberals and Conservatives faced off in a showdown that threatened to lead to a summer election. The election was avoided by a last-minute deal to have a blue-ribbon panel of Liberal and Conservative appointees investigate EI issues and report back in the Fall.
