What's new: what changed on Owed at Work, and when

This page lists every change to the site, newest first, with the date it was made. The figures keep a trail of their own: each one carries the day it was last reviewed, and the full registry is in official figures. This log covers changes to pages and to their wording. If you find a figure that is wrong, tell us, and the correction is recorded here once it is made.

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October 19, 2026

The severance pay calculator, the EI calculator, the severance pay guide, hours needed for EI and the pages for Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec and Yukon have clearer titles, a shorter opening answer and a new "Quick answers" section with the questions readers ask most.
Every guide and article now ends with a Share button, an email link and a copy-link option, so you can send the page to someone who was just let go. Both calculators can also copy your result as plain text, or as a link that reopens the same numbers. Your numbers go into that link only when you ask for it, after the # sign, which your browser never sends to us.

October 13, 2026

The temporary EI measures were renewed as Pilot Project No. 25 from October 11, 2026: the waiver of the waiting period and the rule that separation money does not delay benefits now run to October 9, 2027, and the 20 extra weeks for long-tenured workers to June 12, 2027. A new measure has Service Canada look only at why your most recent job ended, so an earlier quit or dismissal no longer counts against a claim if the last job ended through no fault of your own. See the waiting period and your first payment, EI after quitting or being fired for misconduct and severance pay and EI. The notice on every EI and severance page, and both calculators, now carry the new dates.
EI economic regions: every EI page now uses the table for the period from October 11 to November 7, 2026. The unemployment rate changed in 56 of the 62 regions.

September 24, 2026

Every block page of the official figures registry (the 14 jurisdictions, the federal rules, the jurisdictions directory and the EI block) now opens with its own text: what the block holds and which statute it comes from, how to read the columns and the verification statuses, and where the site uses those figures.
The severance pay calculator and the EI estimator have a new section, "How to use it for your situation", with the common cases and the one input that decides each result.
New article: laid off in Canada: what you're owed, and when a layoff is really a termination.
In the EI estimator, the insurable hours field now points to Block 15A of the record of employment, the label the form actually uses.

September 14, 2026

Repeated text was cut across the site. Each comparison table now lives on one page, the guide for its topic, and the articles that used to repeat it sum it up in a sentence and link to it. The author card, the closing notice and the sources block are shorter, and the consultation date for the sources appears once, at the foot of the block.
The official figures registry shows the plain name of each figure first and its key in the data file beneath it. The index is now a reading page, and the per-block tables stay as audit tables.
On the Employment Insurance pages for each province and territory, the "Other jurisdictions" links under the estimator now go to the EI page of that province or territory. They used to point to the severance pages.
This page was added.

September 8, 2026

EI economic regions: the regional rates, hours and weeks for the period from September 6 to October 10, 2026, are now on every EI page. The table changes every four weeks and is republished here each time.
Two calculator pages were added, severance pay calculator and EI calculator, for the reader who wants the tool rather than the guide. The calculators index lists both.
The severance pay hub was retitled as the guide it is, so that it and the calculator page do not compete for the same search.

September 5, 2026

The site was published: what you are owed when your job ends, for all fourteen Canadian jurisdictions, with a calculator on every jurisdiction page; Employment Insurance after your job ends, with an estimator and a page for each province and territory; and the registry of official figures, every one with its statute, its section and its review date.
Privacy policy and terms: the wording that identifies the operator was settled.