What is the difference between seasonal and full time staff?
Two of our restaurant locations currently employ seasonal staff. This means that an employee is brought in for two fast track permits of three months duration each. The contract is different and the employee does not have the same Immigration coverage as a full permit employee. This also means that as long as the employee has not worked over a 6 month period, at the end of the seasonal permit, the employee will receive back the employee portion of the payments made to Social Insurance (currently $26.80 per week) and any other required deposit linked to their individual contract. If a seasonal employee works one day over the 6 months, then the money is held until you are 65 years of age. Full time employees, who leave within a 6 month period, are not eligible to claim their social insurance funds back in cash as “they were employed with the intent to work on a longer term basis” and will need to wait until they are 65 years of age to claim their funds, as explained above.
