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Page 8, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, November 16, 1983 'Mainstream Canada Just in time - some progress on U.I. by W. ROGER WORTH People operating the country's small and me- dium-sized enterprises and their employees may not be overjoyed with recent increases in the premiums they pay to the Unemployment Insurance fund, but it could have been much worse. The reason? A devas- tating 56 per cent gen- eral premium -rate in- crease that would have been required to balance the government's Un- employment Insurance. account, didn't happen. Instead, both em- ployers and higher-paid employees will pay about 10 per cent more come January 1, 1984. "Our concerted ef- forts to eliminate or postpone a massive in- crease in premiums paid of,' said John Bul- loch, president of the 64,000-member Cana- dian Federation 'of In- dependent Business. "The politicians .ac- cepted our advice, which is encouraging indeed." Nevertheless, many employees will pay an extra 92 cents per week, bringing weekly pre- miums to $9.78. Con- tributions by many em- ployers will rise by a maximum of $1.29, to $13.69 per week. What's intriguing, though, is that Ottawa is finally coming to under- stand that dramatically raising payroll taxes such as Unemployment _Insurance is tantamount to killing the small busi- hess goose that is pro- viding a majority of those precious golden eggs called jobs. Even better, politi- cians from all the fed-, eral parties have gen- erally agreed with a Federation proposal to consider holding a full public inquiry into the way the Unemployment Insurance system works. "There are very real problems in an Unem- ployment Insurance scheme that will cost Canadians between $55-billion and $65- billion over the next five years unless it is tight- ened up,' says- Bul- loch. "We have already proven that smaller firms are paying much, much more than their fair share of payroll and indirect taxes, and we're seeking major changes in the system to over- come these difficulties." Still, Bulloch agrees it will be tought to make substantial changes be- fore the next federal election, which is one reason he's so pleased with Ottawa's deci- sion to shelve a general Unemployment In- surance rate increase of 50 per cent or more. That would have left firms in the small busi- ness sector paying an onerous $18.60 per week per employee: Under such a sys- tem, a lot of smaller companies attempting to survive couldn't have paid this high price of hiring people. "Sometimes govern- ments forget that payroll taxes such as Unem- ployment Insurance must be paid, regard- less of whether -em- ployers are breaking even, losing money or earning profits,' Bul- loch points out. "Thank- fully, this time, the poli- ticians decided in our favour. I only hope they've finally come to recognize that payroll taxes are creating ser- ious problems for the small business sector."' Kimberly Clark - Camp 53 most improved in 3rd Quarter 130 employees and guests gathered to recognize members of Camps 53 and 61 for Safety Improvement, at a dinner and dance at the Longlac Curling Club. Camp 53 Safety Committee members, Tom Glendinning, J.P. Lauzon, Harri Hakka- rainen, Robert Bois and Steve Crawford receiv- ed the Productions Man- agers Plaque from Pro- duction Manager, Kerr Angus, for most improv- ed safety performance (138 points) in the July- September period. Camp 61 was a close second with 131 points. Their Safety Commit- tee includes Gary Selin- ger, Ron Miron, Ray Lecuyer and Nelson Cos- tello. Don Penna, Vice- President and Wood- lands Manager, present- ed a silver hard hat to J.P. Alarie for 15 years without a lost time ac- cident and gold hats (20 years) to Yvon Ouellet and Aarne Suutari, both of Camp 53. 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