Summary of Issue: Rationale

Decision A-0811.00 Full Text of Decision A-0811.00

The intention of Parliament is to pay employment insurance benefits to those individuals who, through no fault of their own, are truly unemployed and who are seriously engaged in an earnest effort to find work. Teachers are not considered unemployed during the annual non-teaching periods and they are therefore not entitled to benefits, unless they meet one of the three criteria set out in Reg. 33(2)

Decision A-0664.01 Full Text of Decision A-0664.01

The intention of Parliament is to pay unemployment benefits to those individuals who, through no fault of their own, are truly unemployed and who are seriously engaged in an earnest effort to find work. Teachers are not considered unemployed during the annual non-teaching periods and they are therefore not entitled to benefits, unless they meet one of the three criteria set out in paragraph 33(2) of the EI Regulations.

Decision A-1240.84 Full Text of Decision A-1240.84

The mischief which the legislation was intended to suppress was to prevent payment of benefits to people in certain jobs under yearly contract and not that unemployed teachers might receive benefit during the summer, said the Umpire [p. 13]. No basis toattack this decision.