The Issues...

As a contract employee, I witnessed, what was in my opinion, permanent employees at the Canada Revenue Agency facilitating and engaging in what was in my opinion employment insurance fraud.

When term or contract Canada Revenue Employees were offered work extensions, these extensions were offered verbally. IF ACCEPTED, contracts were then generated.

IF REFUSED, the refusal to accept a work extension was not captured for the administration of the Employment Insurance Act and Records of Employment were completed to show "End of Contract".

To be eligible for employment insurance benefits (EI), a person must be READY, WILLING and ABLE to work. In my opinion, at the CRA, the "WILLING" was often a problem as work extensions were refused.

Because the work extension refusals were not properly reflected on Records of Employment (which probably should have indicated "quit"), employees refusing work one day could literally be applying for employment insurance benefits the next.

Services Canada administers the Employment Insurance Act and recently overhauled eligibility criteria for employment insurance, making it much harder for many to quality. The Canada Revenue Agency is the "enforcement arm" for Services Canada which goes after any funds owed in matters of employment insurance fraud. Thus, how likely is it that a proper investigation and proper discipline of these employees will indeed happen when many employees of the "enforcement arm" (i.e., Canada Revenue Agency/CRA) appear to be themselves engaging in employment insurance fraud?

Given what I experienced when I attempted to have these issues addressed when I saw what was in my opinion inexcusable behavior/practices at the CRA, and given I was basically forced to quit because I would not turn a blind eye to these issues, my "faith in the system" is MOST limited.

There shouldn't be one set of rules for federal employees at the CRA and another set of rules for "the rest of you" when it comes to employment insurance and the law... in theory... there isn't supposed to be... in practice... what I witnessed and experienced at the CRA certainly left me thinking there indeed was a huge double standard in these matters.

I referred my issues to National Revenue Agency Minister Gail Shea no less than 3 times. It was only when I provided proof and documentation of what I was saying that the issues were taken seriously at the CRA and investigated - supposedly resulting in an overhaul in methods/procedures/practices/processes at the CRA as they related to these issues. However, I was the one "forced out" and those who, in my opinion, violated the law, are still very much there.

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