As many as 2,000 new parents — mostly mothers — who were seriously ill during parental leave, but denied additional EI sickness benefits, may finally get their money. McCrea was on maternity leave in 2011 with Logan when she was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer and denied EI sickness benefits. But EI officials didn’t interpret the changes that way; they argued that since an ill woman on parental leave wasn’t available for work, she wasn’t eligible for EI sickness benefits. But it refused to pay McCrea and others who were denied sickness benefits between 2002 and 2013. Rougas received her EI sickness benefits when she won her case in 2011 and was not part of the class action.

Source: thestar September 11, 2018 19:07 UTC