Employment Insurance - Fair Or Unfair ?

I have a couple of questions: 1) why do students and employers pay into the fund when students are not able to collect any benefit from the fund ? 2) Why are seasonal employees not entitled to draw benefits when they only work for part of the busy season ? 3) If an employer knows that the employee is not going to work the necessary hours to collect benefits, then there should be a provision that allows the employee and the employer to NOT contribute to the fund. I live in a high seasonal employment area, and some workers can put in 6 to 8 weeks of full time employment, but that is not enough working hours to allow them to collect any benefit at all. I understand the minimum is some 900+ hours per season, and not everyone gets to put in that many hours. I have friends who have a year round business, but since it is only busy during the summer, they hire a person for the busy period. They tell me that it's not their problem if they are not busy enough to keep this employee on long enough to cover the eligibility qualifications. My question to them was "How many hours do they work ?" Their reply was "about 800 hours per season". I suggested that to be fair to the employee, keep them on for an extra 3 weeks and then they would have a satisfied employee year after year. They have done that now for the past 8 years, and it's made a lot of difference. The same person keeps coming back every year, instead of training a new person each season. That's money in the bank. That begs the question: why are they not allowed to collect based on the hours they did put in ? I also take exception with the concept of tourism as the great saviour of the working person. In my area, seasonal jobs pay minimum wage or perhaps slightly more, certainly not enough to live on. We keep hearing that tourism is great. Great for who ? The business, that's who. I used to work in the golf industry, and the owner is a millionaire, drives a $100k car, has several homes, and yet he pays $8.00 per hour. I went to college, got my greenskeeper diploma, along with my pesticide licenses, and my pay jumped to $10 an hour. Let's see, that would be $10k per year, and yes, I was allowed to collect UI when it was called that, to the tune of $4k per off-season, so my point is, why would anyone want to work in this industry. I tried for 6 years to make it work and finally gave up. So please don't tell me that tourism is the great answer to our unemployment problem. It is PART OF the PROBLEM. Wages in the industry are simply too low.