Contact the Employer Contact Centre
For more information on Employment Insurance (EI) for employers, please consult: EI information for employers.
Not an employer? Consult: EI information for individuals.
Online
You can complete the following tasks online:
By phone
The Employer Contact Centre's automated service provides specific information on some of Service Canada's employer related programs and services. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
During business hours, you can call the Employer Contact Centre for assistance with:
- advice and guidance about issuing records of employment (ROE)
- ordering paper ROE forms
- technical support for ROE Web
- registration support for Grants and Contributions Online Services (GCOS)
- Data Gateway support for:
- information on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)
- information about the Job Bank for Employers in Quebec
- information on the Work-Sharing Program
- information on the EI Premium Reduction Program (PRP)
- information on the Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) program
We will ask you for the following information when you call:
- your Business Number (BN), or the BN of the business you are calling about
- the postal code associated with the BN (as registered with CRA)
Canada and the United States:
- Toll-free: 1-800-367-5693
- TTY: 1-855-881-9874
Outside Canada and the United States: 506-546-7569 (collect calls accepted)
Hours of operation: 7:00 am to 8:00 pm, Eastern Time, Monday to Friday.
Average wait times
Our service standard is to answer your call within 10 minutes. Please see below our average wait times for the week of March 13, 2023.
Definition of average wait time
This is the average length of time that callers wait in queue before speaking to an agent.
Days | Average wait time |
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Monday March 13, 2023 | 2 minutes |
Tuesday March 14, 2023 | 56 seconds |
Wednesday March 15, 2023 | 44 seconds |
Thursday March 16, 2023 | 1 minute |
Friday March 17, 2023 | 5 minutes |
Average wait time for the week of March 13, 2023 | 2 minutes |
To resolve your enquiry without waiting to speak to a representative, you may use one of our online self-service options described above.
Weekly average wait times
Weeks | Average wait time |
---|---|
The week of March 6 to 10 | 27 seconds |
The week of February 27 to March 3 | 22 seconds |
The week of February 20 to 24 | 42 seconds |
The week of February 13 to 17 | 2 minutes |
Monthly average wait times
Months | Average wait time |
---|---|
February 2023 | 1 minute |
January 2023 | 14 minutes |
December 2022 | 12 minutes |
November 2022 | 9 minutes |
October 2022 | 7 minutes |
September 2022 | 14 minutes |
August 2022 | 1 minute |
July 2022 | 2 minutes |
June 2022 | 20 seconds |
May 2022 | 23 seconds |
April 2022 | 41 seconds |
March 2022 | 23 seconds |
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