DCHP-2

unemployment insurance Unemployment Insurance, UI DCHP-2 (November 2016)

• n. — somewhat dated, Administration

  temporary support payments for qualified workers (see employment insurance).

  Type: 4. Culturally Significant — The service, offered by the federal government, changed its name in 1996 from unemployment insurance to employment insurance. The former term, as Chart 1 shows, still has some currency in Canada, though use elsewhere is much greater. The idea of unemployment insurance was conceived before WWI (see the 1914 quotation), and received support from Labor Congresses (see the 1920 quotation), yet it was not until the 1930s when the first such payments were legislated and commenced. For more detail, see employment insurance. In the North American context, basic social services such as these are a culturally salient feature of Canadianness in the eyes of many.
  See also COD-2, s.v. "unemployment insurance", which lables it "Cdn", OED-3, s.v. "unemployment".

  See also:   employment insurance  EI  UI  Unemployment Insurance Commission  UIC  unemployment