So I was off for 7 weeks at the beginning of COVID, managed to get a new job at the end of April. I'm an HR manager - but luckily, I've managed to skirt the worst of the COVID stuff and am more or less dealing with employees who've left and what not. Well, I had a woman (spoiler: she's a TFW) - she made a big deal about extending her Maternity Leave, which I had advised her, she can do that, but she will not get EI from Service Canada for extending her leave (it says on EI's website, if you're going to take Mat leave/paternity leave, you have 2 choices: You can take the 18 month leave at 33% of your income, or the standard mat leave (1 year) at 55% income - and you cannot switch). So after telling her all of this, she still wanted to do it - Ok, no problem (we also don't have much work availble right now, because we're just getting things up and running again). Well...color me surprised - Guess who called me this week, asking if I had anything to do with their CERB payments being denied and was asking what is she supposed to do now?
Lol...you can get fucked, for all care...