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Sub-Issue 1: |
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Sub-Issue 3: |
| voluntarily leaving employment |
commuting |
distance too great |
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Summary:
The claimant left her employment because the employer moved the workplace 25 km farther away. This added 33 km to the claimant's commute, but she wanted to work less than 20 km away from home. The Board of Referees considered whether the extra distance was excessive, whether she had a reasonable alternative to leaving, whether she could have looked for employment elsewhere before leaving her guaranteed employment and whether she could have tried carpooling to and from work. There are many alternatives that the claimant did not seem to have considered before leaving. The Board of Referees was of the opinion that the claimant made a personal decision to leave her job. The Umpire concluded that the Board of Referees' decision is correct in fact and in law, and entirely consistent with the case law and the principles set out by the FCA.
