COVID-19 vaccination

In most cases, if you lose or quit your job because you didn’t comply with your employer’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, you won’t be eligible for EI regular benefits. To determine if you’re eligible, we may contact you to obtain information such as:

  • if your employer clearly communicated a mandatory COVID?19 vaccination policy to you
  • if you were informed that not complying with the policy would result in you losing your employment
  • if applying the policy to you was reasonable within your workplace context
  • if you have a valid reason for not complying with the policy and your employer didn’t provide you an exemption

We’ll use the facts provided by you and your employer to determine if you’re entitled to benefits.

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-regular-benefit/eligibility.html