{"id":5266,"date":"2015-10-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-ginsberg-gingras.flywheelsites.com\/what-is-the-wage-earner-protection-program-act\/"},"modified":"2021-04-13T18:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:16:19","slug":"what-is-the-wage-earner-protection-program-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginsberg-gingras.com\/en\/what-is-the-wage-earner-protection-program-act\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Wage Earner Protection Program Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wage Earner Protection Program Act (WEPPA) is in force since July 7th 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Government of Canada program is designed to help workers whose employer went bankrupt or is subject to a receivership.<\/strong> It also aims to support workers who lost their job because their employer went bankrupt or became subject to a receivership after unsuccessfully trying to restructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Wage Earner Protection Program (WEPP) is particularly important for precarious and vulnerable workers. According to Industry Canada, most bankruptcies occur in low-wage non-unionized sectors with a dubious future. Each year, more than 60% of these bankruptcies occur in the retail, accommodation and food, and personal services sectors, as well as businesses with fewer than 10 employees who offer the most vulnerable jobs.<\/p>\n<h2>Eligibility for the Wage Earner Protection Program<\/h2>\n<p>The following criteria must be met to be eligible to the WEPP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An employment has ended due to a permanent and definitive termination of the employment<\/li>\n<li>At least 7 consecutive days during which no work has been done for the employer<\/li>\n<li>No wages have been paid to the worker for this period<\/li>\n<li>The employer must be bankrupt or subject to a receivership<\/li>\n<li>The worker must be owed eligible wages accumulated during the period beginning 6 months before a restructuring and ending on the date of bankruptcy or receivership.\n<ul>\n<li>Should the employer not have gone through restructuring, the eligibility period is the 6 month period ending on the date of bankruptcy or receivership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the purposes of the program, a restructuring corresponds to a proposal filed under Division I of Part III of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) or to proceedings under the Companies\u2019 Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA).<\/p>\n<h2>The concept of wages under the Wage Earner Protection Program Act<\/h2>\n<p>Under the WEPPA, wages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Salaries<\/li>\n<li>Commissions<\/li>\n<li>Compensation for services rendered<\/li>\n<li>Vacation pay<\/li>\n<li>Gratuities accounted for by the employer<\/li>\n<li>Disbursements of a travelling salesperson properly incurred in and about the business of the bankrupt or of the person subject to receivership<\/li>\n<li>Performance bonuses<\/li>\n<li>Shift premiums<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Severance pay and termination pay for employment are also included since January 27th, 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The payment may represent a maximum of 4 weeks of insurable Employment Insurance earnings ($3,807.68 for 2015), minus amounts set out in regulations.<\/p>\n<h2>Filing an application under the Wage Earner Protection Program<\/h2>\n<p>Applications must be submitted by the worker to Service Canada within 56 days of the later of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the date of the bankruptcy or receivership<\/li>\n<li>the date employment ended due to termination, resignation, retirement or expiry of contract<\/li>\n<li>the date on which the receiver terminated employment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the worker, due to circumstances beyond his or her control, is prevented from filing within the prescribed time frame, he or she must provide a written explanation for the delay.<\/p>\n<p>The following persons are not eligible to receive payment under the WEPP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>officers or directors of the business of the former employer;<\/li>\n<li>shareholders who had a controlling interest in the business of the former employer;<\/li>\n<li>managers empowered to make binding decisions on the payment of wages by the business of the former employer;<\/li>\n<li>people who were not dealing at arm&#8217;s length with any of the above-mentioned persons, except if they can prove that such a link had no impact on their working relationship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":4840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[667],"tags":[747,742],"class_list":["post-5266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-company","tag-wage-earner-protection-program"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is the Wage Earner Protection Program Act? 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