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Ontario Works: Immigration status and access to social assistance

June 12, 2015

In 2013, ISAC noticed that there was a sharp increase in the number of Ontario Works recipients who were being cut off because of their immigration status. ISAC was concerned that many of these recipients were entitled to Ontario Works and were improperly being denied income supports that they needed. ISAC worked closely with a …

Filed Under: Litigation Tagged With: Social Assistance General

Migrant workers to get EI benefits they are owed

September 23, 2014

More than 100 migrant workers will actually get the EI Parental Benefits they are owed after fighting for these benefits at tribunals and in court for many years. Last fall, the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) and Niagara North Community Legal Assistance  went before the Federal Court of Appeal to argue that 102 seasonal agricultural …

Filed Under: Litigation Tagged With: Employment Insurance, enews, Migrant Workers

Migrant Workers Win EI Case

November 29, 2013

On November 19, 2013, the Federal Court of Appeal ordered the Office of the Umpire to re-hear each of 102 cases wherein migrant workers were denied Employment Insurance parental benefits.The applications had been denied on the grounds that they had applied “too late” and the denials had been upheld by the Umpire. But there is no …

Filed Under: Litigation, Public Education Tagged With: Employment Insurance, enews, Migrant Workers

Migrant Agricultural Workers challenge unjust denial of Employment Insurance benefits

October 2, 2013

On October 16, the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) and Niagara North Community Legal Assistance will go before the Federal Court of Appeal to argue that 102 seasonal agricultural workers were wrongly denied EI parental benefits. These workers are an essential part of the Canadian labour force. They plant and harvest the food that Canadians need. Many have been …

Filed Under: Litigation, Public Education Tagged With: Employment Insurance, enews, Migrant Workers

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