| Issue: |
Sub-Issue 1: |
Sub-Issue 2: |
Sub-Issue 3: |
| voluntarily leaving employment |
just cause |
Definition of common-law partner |
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Summary:
The claimant left her employment to follow her common-law partner of some 10-11 months. Such reason is a just cause listed in subparagraph 29(c)(ii) of the Act. The issue is whether the claimant had established the existence of a common-law relationship prior to leaving. The Board and the Umpire did not consider the definition of "common-law partner" introduced to the EI Act in year 2000: "in relation to a claimant, means a person who is cohabiting with the claimant in a conjugal relationship, having so cohabited for a period of at least one year". A relationship of 10-11 months does not allow for a finding that the relationship had a duration of "at least one year".
