Decision 22058A

Case Number Claimant Judge Language Decision date
Decision 22058A   Hollingworth  English 1993-12-08
Decision Appealed Appellant Corresponding Case
Dismissed  No N/A  -


Issue: Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
availability for work  courses  pattern study-work simultaneously 

Summary:

Student with 5-year pattern disentitled after 8 weeks. The jurisprudence shows clearly that a period of 8 weeks is the norm. See CUB_14357. Claimant was disentitled as she was unavailable pursuant to the 8-week jurisprudence (deemed to be the reasonablenorm). Error in law by the Board. Disentitled after 8 weeks. It is true that claimant has established a part-time employment syndrome (5 years), but it never was the purpose of the Act to crystallize part-time employment and to enable graduate students to become almost perennial students and have their education paid by taxpayers.


Issue: Sub-Issue 1: Sub-Issue 2: Sub-Issue 3:
availability for work  restrictions  reasonable period of time 

Summary:

Student with 5 years part-time work disentitled after 8 weeks. The jurisprudence shows clearly that a period of 8 weeks is the norm. See CUB_14357. Claimant was disentitled as she was unavailable pursuant to the 8-week jurisprudence (deemed to be the reasonable norm). Error in law by the Board.


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