Summary of Issue: Rationale

Decision 41132 Full Text of Decision 41132

Act does not require that it be an emergency situation that leads to separation from employment as a result of significant changes in working conditions, but that the changes be significant and that, in the circumstances, leaving be the only reasonable alternative.

Decision 42097 Full Text of Decision 42097

Claimant left his job to attend technical school to further his education and to enhance the possibility of him receiving a better job. There is abundant jurisprudence which indicates that a person cannot leave a position to return to school and receive benefits, unless this is a course which receives the approval fo the Commission which was not the case here.

Decision 41404 Full Text of Decision 41404

Citing numerous decisions of the FCA, Umpire found that the EI Act is not designed to pay for the education of a person who leaves a steady position to attend school.

Decision 23853 Full Text of Decision 23853

Claimant made the choice to quit and although that choice was his to make, the Act is clear that he must have just cause for the choice before the burden of his unemployment can be passed on to others. Such is clearly not the case here.

Decision 21619 Full Text of Decision 21619

Unfortunately for him, it is not just looking or seeking another job but actually arranging for one before quitting that is required. It is not appropriate that a person quit a job and expect the taxpayer to pay him from the UI monies. A penalty is imposed for that very reason.

Decision 16306 Full Text of Decision 16306

The legislator does not want workers to quit without serious reason. The objective is to encourage them to keep their jobs, not to quit them as the mood suits them. Disqualification must be the rule; while it should really be 6 weeks, it should also rarely be cancelled.

Decision 15749 Full Text of Decision 15749

The principle behind UI is to assist those who lose their employment due to circumstances somewhat beyond their control. When decision to leave is taken voluntarily, it must be shown that the choice was forced upon claimant by unacceptable conditions.

Decision 13329 Full Text of Decision 13329

The purpose of the UI scheme is to indemnify claimants who are unemployed for reasons beyond their control, not to those who lose earnings by voluntarily and without just cause quitting their job.

Decision 13183 Full Text of Decision 13183

The UI scheme is intended to provide benefits for those claimants who involuntarily lose their employment through no fault of their own.

Decision 12913 Full Text of Decision 12913

UI is intended to provide relief to those who involuntarily lose their employment and accordingly s.28 and 30 disqualify claimants who have voluntarily left their employment.

Decision 12125 Full Text of Decision 12125

The purpose of UI is to provide relief to persons who become involuntarily unemployed and accordingly the UI Act disqualifies claimants who have voluntarily left their employment without just cause for periods of up to six weeks.

Decision 11565 Full Text of Decision 11565

The principle underlying s.41 is that the risk being insured against is an involuntary separation from employment.

Decision A-1458.84 Full Text of Decision A-1458.84

S. 28 is part of an Act that establishes a system of insurance against unemployment and its provisions must be interpreted having regard to the obligation that normally rests on any insured not to deliberately cause the occurrence of the risk. [p. 6]