| Issue: |
Sub-Issue 1: |
Sub-Issue 2: |
Sub-Issue 3: |
| voluntarily leaving employment |
just cause |
to accompany spouse |
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Summary:
Claimant and her friend had been living together on weekends for 3 years. She commuted every week from Grand Centre to Edmonton and lived with her parents during the week. She left to live with her friend on continuing basis. This is not just cause for leaving employment.
Meaning of spouse in para. 28(4)(b) examined. It means a wife or husband. If Parliament wanted to include a common law spouse it would have so stated. It is not for an Umpire to expand the meaning of the word to include a common-law relationship. To quit to follow a common-law spouse is not just cause.
