Hello everyone,
The business I worked for was shutdown due to Covid-19 for two two month. All employees including me were temporary layedoff at that time but we came back to work later. Should I mention this in my citizinship application? and what should I write?
No need to overthink these things. Frankly, for a short period of time like this, and if the relationship with the employer is you still had your job, just that operations were temporary suspended, it should be OK to just include the period within the continuing period of employment. But OK to list that period separately and describe it . . . variously, as either "unemployed" or "covid-related-layoff" or what YOU feel is the honest, accurate way to describe where you were, when, doing what.
EXPLANATION:
Here too I seem to be in a minority, for questions about filling in the work history section of the citizenship application, among those who quite emphatically think there are no wrong answers . . . possibly incomplete, unclear, evasive, misleading, inaccurate, or dishonest answers, all of which are to be avoided . . . but the application is not a test of the applicant's bureaucratic-form-completing skills. As I often remind: IRCC does
NOT play
gotcha-games.
Clue: there is no drop-down box or menu for either "Occupation/Activity" or the employer's name. The applicant's answer does not need to fit particular let alone precise categories.
The applicant can use whatever terms the applicant honestly believes best describes what they were doing, their primary activity, during a period of time. IRCC is just asking for, looking for, information that truthfully illuminates where the applicant was, when, and doing what.
So there are various OK ways to complete the application. All those suggested, to the extent they truthfully describe your primary activity during the referenced period of time, should be OK.
I can offer the way I'd approach it, but just to illustrate there are various ways to answer such questions. I might have listed "
temporary Covid layoff" or "
suspension" in the activity box but still list the employer in the name box. But for two months or less,
shrug, fair chance I would not have made any separate entry for that period of time, especially if my "occupation" was the same for the same employer for a lengthy period of time before and after.
Again, there is no particular, let alone precise "right" answer.
