Employment insurance: deadline to report an employee's acquisition of insured status
The counterexample to the '14 days for the four insurances' rule that every hiring checklist repeats. Health insurance runs on 14 days; this one runs to a fixed date in the following month, so the two deadlines can be weeks apart for the same hire. Recorded alongside the health insurance deadline precisely so the pair cannot be quoted as one number.
- Applies to
- Employers reporting a new employee's acquisition of employment insurance coverage
- Review cadence
- Checked once a year
What we have recorded
- 2026-10-1215th of the following month
Generally by the 15th of the month following the month in which the cause arose. Because the schemes diverge, the safe practice is not to memorise each deadline but to file all four together immediately after the hire — which satisfies the earliest of them and makes the rest moot.
Act on the Collection of Premiums for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance
One reading so far. This becomes a history the first time the figure moves while we are watching — which is the part that cannot be reconstructed later.