Interim Order 8 under the EI Act reads as follows :
153.193 The following are to be excluded from the earnings referred to in section 35 of the Employment Insurance Regulations:
(a) any pay or earnings referred to in subsection36(8), (9) or (19) of those Regulations if
(i) the claimant’s benefit period begins on or after September 27, 2020, or
(ii) the pay or earnings are declared to the Commission on or after September 27, 2020 and would otherwise have been allocated under section 36 of those Regulations to a week beginning on or after September 27, 2020;
Here is the link to the Interim Order: https://lnkd.in/gfZCfni
What this would seem to mean is that if a person were terminated on or after September 27, 2020 then any termination pay, severance pay or wrongful dismissal damages they receive does not affect their EI entitlement.
Thus you can now get EI and termination pay etc for the same period.
AND
You presumably do not have to repay EI for wrongful dismissal damages received if the termination took place on or after September 27, 2020.
This provision expires on September 25, 2021.
Thanks to Lisa Feld for telling me about this.
Therefore for terminations that take place between September 27, 2020 and September 25, 2021 you need not even check with EI regarding any overpayment owing.
That will certainly make my mediations easier.