| Issue: |
Sub-Issue 1: |
Sub-Issue 2: |
Sub-Issue 3: |
| voluntarily leaving employment |
just cause |
marriage and move |
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Summary:
Claimant left her job in Winnipeg to be with her fiance elsewhere in Manitoba. She acknowledged that she and her fiance had not been living in a common-law relationship and that they were planning to be married in September of 2002, in excess of 10 months after she left her employment. BOR allowed the claimant's appeal but the Umpire held that the "anticipated marriage" in this case was not anticipated for almost 11 months. This cannot be called imminently. Commission appeal allowed.
| Issue: |
Sub-Issue 1: |
Sub-Issue 2: |
Sub-Issue 3: |
| voluntarily leaving employment |
just cause |
to accompany spouse |
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Summary:
The BOR erred in law when it determined that the claimant moved to Gilliam to establish a common law union which, it determined, amounted to just cause. The parties must have lived together in a conjugal relationship for one year, under the legislation, for the relationship to be the equivalent of a marriage.
