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ARTICLE · 27 APRIL 2020

Employer Snapshot: More On Canada's Emergency Wage Subsidy

Federal support for employers continues to evolve alongside the COVID crisis.

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Federal support for employers continues to evolve alongside the COVID crisis. Among the more recent measures is the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), which was further refined by a bill passed on April 11.

We have provided a detailed review of these refinements here. However, below is a quick snapshot of what the CEWS program entails to date:

Qualifying for CEWS

  • CEWS is intended to minimize layoffs amid the COVID crisis by subsidizing wages paid by eligible employers to eligible employees
  • CEWS will be available between March 15 (retroactively) and June 6, 2020. The government has set three CEWS "qualifying periods" within this timeframe
  • To be eligible for CEWS in a given "qualifying period," an employer must show the requisite decrease in revenue as follows:

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