Summary of Issue: Immediate Availability


Decision 45899 Full Text of Decision 45899

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Issue: Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
availability for work applicability immediate availability
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Claimant asserted that, because he had chosen to be confined to a residential drug addiction treatment centre, he was not subject to par. 32(a) of the Act regarding inmates. Claim dismissed by the Umpire. Claimant was required to be at the residential drug addiction treatment centre 24 hours a day. The court order even stated that he would be taken into custody if he left the residential centre. Claimant was not in a position to look for work or hold any type of job. FCA decision in Whiffen (A-1472.92) cited.

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Other Issue(s): Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
availability for work incompatible situations imprisonment

Decision 21518 Full Text of Decision 21518

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Issue: Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
availability for work applicability immediate availability
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Would quit the course if she gets work in her profession. Could not expect such work until she passed the qualifying exams. As per CUB 9016, availability at some future date is not sufficient. Not eligible to practice medicine. All her efforts were directed to the future.


Decision 13106 Full Text of Decision 13106

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Issue: Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
availability for work applicability immediate availability
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Availability referred to by Act is not availability to obtain better employment but to find employment quickly; availability must be immediate and relate to every working day.

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