Win-Win situation
Work-Sharing benefits employees:
they avoid the hardship of being
laid off;
they retain their work skills.
Work-Sharing benefits employers:
valued employees are retained;
staff morale is strengthened;
expensive rehiring and retraining
costs are avoided.
Management and employees must agree
to participate in Work-Sharing. To be
eligible, an employer must have been
in business in Canada for at least two
years. The company must also be able to
show that the need for reduced hours is
temporary and unavoidable, and is not
a seasonal situation. Other conditions
apply.
Agreements can range from 6 to 26 weeks
with an extension of up to a maximum
of 38 weeks. However, the 2009 federal
budget will extend, over the next two
years, work-sharing agreements by 14
weeks, to a maximum of 52 weeks,
and will increase access through greater
flexibility in the qualifying criteria and
streamlining processes for employers.
For more information:
The Service Canada web site provides
more information about terms and
conditions for the program as well as
forms to be filled out: http://www1.
servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/epb/sid/cia/
grants/ws/desc_ws.shtml
To find the nearest Service Canada
Centre: http://www1.servicecanada.
gc.ca/eng/gateways/where_you_live/
menu.shtml
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