Reasonable Assurance - Unemployment Insurance Division

What does this mean for a school employee?

A school employee who files for Unemployment Insurance benefits will be required to provide information about their recent school employment and their prospects of continued employment with the same, or another school employer in the future. Schools are also contacted to provide information with regard to the employee’s status of employment or continuing employment.

If it is determined:

  1. the employee worked for a school prior to the current academic term, or before a vacation or a holiday and
  2. the school employer, or another school, is providing continuing employment for the next school term, or following a holiday or vacation break then the use of an employee’s school wages are not allowed for use in establishing eligibility for unemployment benefits.

Other wages that are not associated with school employment may be used to establish claimant eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits. A person filing for unemployment insurance benefits with both school and non‐school wages – AND who has reasonable assurance of employment for the following school year, term, or remainder of a school term will receive two monetary determinations – one called a ‘high monetary’ (using all wages) and one referred to as a ‘low monetary’ (school wages removed). If the low monetary determination shows that the person filing is monetarily eligible for benefits, the person may draw available unemployment insurance benefits as calculated on their non‐school wages.

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