Quote Originally Posted by AmandaKDT View Post
All those other employed women ARE paying for EI themselves, it is just that their employer is automatically taking that money off their paycheck. But yes, I feel your stress. Being unable to be fully employed until the end when you don't qualify for sick leave EI makes things very hard financially.
Yes for sure. What I meant is that we have to do it ourselves...like go online and register for it and then wait a year to make a claim. Not a big deal but had I not thought ahead about this and just gotten pregnant, which I'm sure happens a lot, I'd have no EI at all...my timing just happened to work out well for my due date and when I registered for EI last year. It just doesn't seem fair for self employed women though.