Summary of Issue: Financial Difficulties

Decision 28803 Full Text of Decision 28803

The jurisprudence has consistently held that where an employer does not pay an employee the agreed upon wage, the employee has just cause for leaving, providing of course that the underpayment is not an inadvertent error and that claimant has given the employer an opportunity to amend the situation.

Decision 27908 Full Text of Decision 27908

To suggest she had any other alternative is to render an injustice to someone who in good faith believes she is gainfully employed, remains but is not paid or is paid by cheques that cannot be cashed. While she was eventually paid, this was done some 5 months after the events. She had just cause.

Decision 25773 Full Text of Decision 25773

Employees need their wages and salary to be paid on time. Paying employees is fundamental in human experience. This is inherently just cause, whether or not expressed in s. 28. Parliament would have to enact that no pay or slow pay are emphatically not just cause for quitting.

Decision 21854 Full Text of Decision 21854

There can surely be few causes for leaving that more deserve the label "just" than leaving because one's employer is cheating on one's pay packet. To expect one to complain first to the Labour Board is far too stringent a requirement. He did what a reasonable person would do.