Summary of Issue: Part-Time

Decision 72612 Full Text of Decision 72612

Claimant took a year of leave without pay from her job where she worked an average of 25 to 30 hours per week, so that she would be available to work part time at the health centre, which offered more hours of work in the summer and a higher rate of pay than the cooperative. The case law has established that leaving permanent employment for part-time or on-call employment does not constitute just cause within the meaning of the Act even if the new job offers better pay and benefits. As per the Umpire, the Commission's appeal is allowed.

Decision 70209 Full Text of Decision 70209

Claimant quit her full-time job to be available on the call-back list for a part-time job with a School Board which was more advantageous in terms of benefits and salary. She offered her old employer to work on the days when she was not on call at the School Board. The umpire concluded that, in accepting work where the hours were neither planned nor scheduled on a consistent basis, the claimant caused her own unemployment.

Decision 65892 Full Text of Decision 65892

Claimant held a full-time job and a part-time job at the hospital for which she had been trained. The claimant had the choice to make herself available in her full-time job as required by the employer but chose not to do because she did not want to stop her part-time work at the hospital. Whether the claimant's decision constituted voluntarily leaving or a dismissal does not change the fact that it is her decision that led to become unemployed.

Decision 49077 Full Text of Decision 49077

Claimant left his permanent full time job in order to accept a seasonal job, knowing well the temporary aspect of the job. Ruled by Umpire that although the claimant might very well be bettering himself and his standard of living for a short time by leaving his job, such action does not constitute "just cause" within the meaning of the law.

Decision 37981 Full Text of Decision 37981

Giving up full-time employment for part-time employment, the extent of which is necessarily uncertain, cannot be considered as a reasonnable decision constituting just cause within the provisions of the UI Act for relying on unemployment insurance benefits during period of unemployment.

Decision 30822 Full Text of Decision 30822

Claimant left her full-time employment as a sales clerk to accept casual employment in her field of expertise (RN). No emergency situation forcing the claimant to leave her employment; could have remained employed as a sales clerk and search for work inher field.

Decision 29960 Full Text of Decision 29960

Claimant quit her full-time employment to take a temporary higher paying job for six weeks as she knew she needed the money to go to University in the fall. The Act is not there to subsidize persons who might choose to take p/t employment for initial gain and then look to the fund for assistance.

Decision 24899 Full Text of Decision 24899

CUBs 21465A and 21694 referred to. Here claimant is only working 2 days a week plus 4 days in Vancouver. He has not been promised full-time employment. It may eventually turn into a full-time position but we do not know when and consequently the jurisprudence is very clear. This is not just cause.

Decision 21465A Full Text of Decision 21465A

Even if I were to find that claimant was reasonably assured of having new employment when she resigned, that employment was only for 1_1/2 days a week and thus she would not have been entitled, in any event, to place on others the burden of her unemployment for the remaining part of the week.