In response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis, the Government of Canada has created two programs to provide income support for affected workers. The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) will play critical roles in supporting Canadian workers in the weeks and months to come. Employers facing significant declines in revenue are looking to the CEWS program, in particular, to allow them to continue to pay employees even when their workplaces are shuttered.
Following the April 11 passage of Bill C-14, which established the CEWS, the Stikeman Elliott Employment and Labour group has published detailed FAQs on the CERB and CEWS programs. These documents are designed to help employers understand how these initiatives could help them and their workers weather the COVID-19 storm.
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