What happens to your employment insurance when you lose your job before returning from a maternity or parental leave?
It’s a question often asked in parenting groups, queried on social media or posed to employment lawyers as Canadian parents increasingly find themselves in this situation amid a cooling labour market and mass layoffs in several sectors, such as media and the tech industry.
“I’ve never seen layoffs like this in my life, and I’ve been doing this for 20 years,” Allison Venditti, a human resources expert in Toronto, told CBC News. She’s also the founder of advocacy group Moms at Work, Canada’s largest organization for working mothers, with 7,500 members.
Companies are cutting
