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El compassionate care pay expands.


The Compassionate com·pas·sion·ate  
adj.
1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane.

2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances:
 Care Benefit of the Employment Insurance program has been expanded to enable eligible workers to take a temporary absence from work to provide care for a sibling sibling /sib·ling/ (sib´ling) any of two or more offspring of the same parents; a brother or sister.

sib·ling
n.
, grandparent, grandchild, in-law, aunt, uncle, niece NIECE, domestic relations: The daughter of a person's brother or sister. Amb. 514; 1 Jacob's Ch. R. 207. , nephew, foster parent, ward, guardian, or a gravely ill person who considers the claimant CLAIMANT. In the courts of admiralty, when the suit is in rem, the cause is entitled in the Dame of the libellant against the thing libelled, as A B v. Ten cases of calico and it preserves that title through the whole progress of the suit.  to be like a family member.

Previously the benefits were available only to those caring for parents, children and spouses, including common-law partners. Claimants eligible for the El Compassionate Care Benefit can receive up to six weeks of benefits. These can be taken by one person or shared among eligible claimants concurrently or consecutively.

Eligibility for the Compassionate Care Benefit requires that the claimant must have: six hundred hours of insurable employment in the qualifying period, the 52 weeks prior to the start of the claim or, if a self-employed fisher, $3,760 in fishing income; and an interruption INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's.
     2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil.
 of earnings or a reduction of more than 40 percent in normal weekly earnings.
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Title Annotation:CHILDREN, YOUTH & FAMILIES
Publication:Community Action
Date:Aug 21, 2006
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