Ottawa accepts court ruling that benefit rules were unfair to new mothers
The Canadian government will not ask a higher court to change a ruling about Employment Insurance. Employment Insurance, or EI, gives money to workers who lose their jobs. To get it, a person must have worked enough recently. The old rules did not count maternity leave as work. Maternity leave is time off work after having a baby. So some mothers who lost jobs during or soon after this leave got no EI. The Federal Court of Appeal said these rules discriminated against them. This means the rules treated them unfairly. The government must change the law by next September.