Wage Earner Protection Program Act

Marginal note:Exceptions

• 6 (1) An individual is ineligible to receive a payment if, at the date of his or her former employer’s bankruptcy, or the first day on which there was a receiver in relation to the former employer, the individual had been employed by the former employer for a period of three months or less or, in relation to any category of wage earners specified by the regulations, any shorter period specified in the regulations.

• Marginal note:Other exceptions

  (2) An individual is ineligible to receive a payment in respect of any wages earned during a period in which the individual

  • (a) was an officer or a director of the former employer;

  • (b) had a controlling interest, within the meaning of the regulations, in the business of the former employer; or

  • (c) occupied a managerial position, within the meaning of the regulations, with the former employer.