Decision 77009
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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The claimant filed an initial claim for Employment Insurance with his ROE that indicated dismissed. He stated that he stopped reporting for work because he was not happy with his pay. When he was hired, he earned $13.00 an hour and now wants $14.00 and $15.00 an hour. His employer told him that raises were impossible on the work-sharing program and that he was not worth more than $13.00 an hour. The claimant was insulted and decided not to report for work anymore. The employer contacted him at home and told him that in June as he did every year, would review everyone’s’ pay. The claimant didn’t want to wait and didn’t return to work. The BOR’s decision is rescinded as the claimant had no just cause for quitting. The appeal by the commission is allowed by the Umpire.
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
working conditions |
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Decision A-0518.99
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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Claimant quit his job because he was dissatisfied with his employment. According to claimant, he had a deal with his employer to put "laid-off" rather than "terminated" on the ROE but bookkeeper was honest and put "terminated". Claimant argues that the employer should have misrepresented the cause for the cessation of his employment. The BOR, the Umpire nor the FCA would consider such an argument. The FCA simply confirmed that there was sufficient evidence on file to support the BOR's decision that there were no just cause.
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
just cause |
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Decision 44784
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See summary indexed under FCA A-0518.99
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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Decision 43142
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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Umpire found just cause for leaving as the working conditions were intolerable, grievances genuine and reasonable steps taken were met with employer resistance.
Decision 41607
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BOR should have associated clmt's living conditions where there were cultural differences and a lack of social interaction and the entire environment tied to his employment in an isolated community. The reasonable alternatives available to him did not have much chance for success.
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
just cause |
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Decision 40783
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Claimant quit because the work she was doing did not reflect the job description she had been given when she was hired. Umpire found that an employee who leaves his employment without trying to remedy a situation that he finds unpleasant may be deemed not to have provided just cause for his separation. Umpire added that even if a claimant thinks that he is being under-utilized in the duties he performs, that fact does not make his separation the only reasonable solution.
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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Decision 39106
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Claimant quit his job alleging the employer promised to place him in a better position but instead another person was hired to fill that position. Umpire concluded that the claimant was no doubt disappointed in not having received a promotion to a better position but that did not give him just cause for quitting. A reasonable and prudent person in similar circumstances would not be expected to leave his job without firstly securing alternative employment.
Decision 38805
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Claimant found the environment stressful, difficult and unacceptable. While claimant felt he had good cause to leave his work environment on the ground of unpleasant working conditions, in law this does not constitute just cause.
Decision 38611
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Claimant quit her job because she was revulsed at the dirty washrooms to which the employer blithely replied that other people had used the washrooms and had "survived". Umpire find that the claimant quit because of the deplorable working conditions. Having dirty washrooms is a deplorable matter and is just cause for leaving.
Decision A-0673.96
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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Claimant requested clerical work in addition to his duties as armed security guard. Request refused; claimant left his employment without explanation. Subsequently cited work-related back problems as the reason for his action. According to the Umpire, proof not established that the back problem was work-related; claimant was really just dissatisfied with his work. Disqualification upheld and application for judicial review summarily dismissed by the FCA.
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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Decision 36037
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Claimant originally stated that he was no longer employed because employer would no longer give him a full 1-hr lunch break and he was not willing to give it up. A reasonable person would have complied with a ½-hr lunch break. Employer's request reasonable and working conditions not intolerable.
Decision 24198A
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Jurisprudence has clearly established that unsatisfactory working conditions, no matter what they are, do not generally constitute a valid motive for quitting one's employment unless they are so intolerable that the employee has no other choice but to separate from that employment.
Decision 25007
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The UI Act was not conceived as a fall-back position where the State would dispense gratuitous payment to those who felt personally entitled to look for more suitable work. The necessity to find other work because of personal circumstances, likes and dislikes, is inconsistent with TANGUAY.
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
new employment |
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Decision 22625
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Suitability of employment, hours of work, rate of pay and unpleasant working conditions do not constitute just cause. It was incumbent on claimant to make some effort to mitigate the unsuitable working conditions and, failing that, to undertake a search for alternate employment prior to leaving.
Decision 21681
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No single incident in his employment history would be enough to justify his leaving but the totality of the circumstances must be considered. That totality describes a situation which became increasingly vexing and discouraging and which justified the ultimate decision taken.
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Decision 20926
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Unsatisfactory employment is better than none and lack of job satisfaction is not just cause. Just cause usually exists if conditions of employment are so intolerable as to give rise to a genuine grievance coupled with the taking of all reasonable stepsto remedy the situation.
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Decision 19530A
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Assuming he had some legitimate grievances against his employer under provincial law, that does not automatically mean "just cause". Was he put in an intolerable situation? Were there not other remedies which he or his union could have pursued while he continued to work?
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| reconsideration of claim |
new facts |
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Decision 20368
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She has provided a list of 12 employees who left during a one-year period. If a significant turn over occurred this is likely to be the result of very difficult if not intolerable working conditions. An unusually rapid turn over of staff is independent objective evidence.
Decision 19722
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The basic principle to be kept in mind here is that while the law does not require any one to work in a job he dislikes, a person cannot leave a job which is unpleasant but tolerable and automatically expect to collect UI.
Decision 19209
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Experienced maintenance electrician with regular hours. Tried working as construction electrician at irregular hours. No doubt he left without just cause. Dislike of a job is not just cause for leaving it unless there is some objective additional justification. Reduced to 1 week.
Decision 19005
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The circumstances which warrant a lesser disqualification include the understandable frustation on the part of claimant as his job turned out to be different from his expectations, which were apparently not clarified before hiring, and the limited time that the was employed.
Decision 18995
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A prudent person does not leave before finding another job unless impossible, intolerable or dangerous. One is not obliged to stay in any job which one does not find fulfilling, but it does not follow that one is entitled to UI in lieu of carrying on with unsatisfying employment.
Decision 18432
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Discontentment with work itself is not just cause without another job available, or at least the good chance of a job in the near future. Generally a claimant is to try and discuss the reasons for dissatisfaction with the employer and try to find other employment before leaving.
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| basic concepts |
disqualification |
length |
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Decision 12317C
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Logger. No dry room and had to go to work with wet clothes. Meals not cooked until 9:00 p.m. Had to ride on a skidder. Uncontradicted evidence accepted. Conditions not tolerable enough to wait for the WCB to take action. Intolerably risky to good healthand reasonable safety.
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| board of referees |
natural justice |
defined |
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| board of referees |
natural justice |
notice of hearing |
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Decision 17738
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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The cases cited by claimant merely confirm the jurisprudence stating that unsatisfactory employment is better than lack of employment and that job dissatisfaction does not constitute just cause.
Decision 17602
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If the conditions are so intolerable or manifestly unsatisfactory as to give rise to a genuine grievance, coupled with the taking of all reasonable steps to alleviate the grievance before quitting, then just cause is established.
Decision 16631
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The employer refused, because he did not know he had too, to pay the relocation cost in accordance with the Order. The insured person won his case before the CCQ. In the view of the Board, he should have continued to work while lodging a complaint. The umpire said he disagreed and reversed the decision.
Decision 16209
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Employed with handlers and distributors of packaged food products where premises were infested with vermin. At times claimant had to remove dead mice and other decaying animals from the premises. Attempted to find other work before leaving.
Decision 14987A
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Disqualification reduced to 3 weeks by Board and upheld by Umpire. One who professes concerns about the terms and conditions of employment but has not taken the initiative to discuss these with his employer has consistently been held to have left without just cause.
Decision 15389
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Because someone is unhappy at work, he or she is not right to leave it unless they have another or, at least, a good chance of obtaining one in the very near future.
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| availability for work |
restrictions |
wages or salary |
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| availability for work |
job search |
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Decision 14831
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The file indicates that claimant was indeed disgusted with the management situation in which he found himself at his place of employment. As dissatisfied as he might have been, this is not just cause. A prudent person would have found another job beforequitting.
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
personal reasons |
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Decision 14147
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Abruptly leaving because not completely satisfied with management or environment is not the way a reasonable person ought to act. Not reasonable to absent oneself for one day merely as a protest. Ought to have taken means to clarify or find other work.
Decision 13890
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Generally speaking, just cause will be found to exist where the conditions of employment are clearly intolerable and where the employee has taken reasonable steps to try and alleviate the problem before quitting. Overqualification found not to be just cause.
Decision 13697
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Clearly a claimant has the right to quit his employment if it does not measure up to his expectations, but he cannot automatically rely on UI fund for support. The jurisprudence has established that generally a claimant ought to find himself another employment before leaving.
Decision 13466
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There is no evidence that the working conditions were such as to encourage a prudent individual to immediately leave the employment without first securing other employment.
Decision 13424
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No evidence that he took any measures to rectify the conditions which he found objectionable or that he made any realistic effort to seek alternative employment before he left. Context: left after 5 days' work following lengthy unemployment.
Decision 13388
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He did not discuss those problems with his employer before quitting, nor with the union. It has been decided in many cases that a claimant must prove that working conditions were intolerable and that he had made some reasonable effort to bring about an improvement.
Decision 13183
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Jurisprudence has established that dissatisfaction with conditions of employment does not constitute just cause which must be measured by what an ordinary prudent person would do. Two days is not really a sufficiently long enough period of time in whichto assess a job.
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| availability for work |
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Decision 13124
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4 out of 5 complaints against the employer were upheld by the Labour Board; fair indication that conditions less than satisfactory; claimant should have awaited the Labour Board's decision and seek out new employment; disqualification reduced to 1 week.
Decision 12988
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No need to cite authorities that simple frustration over a 3-week period is not just cause. Claimant made no efforts to obtain other employment or remedy frustrations of a relatively minor nature. No ground for reducing a 6-week disqualification.
Decision 12980
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There is ample jurisprudence that while an employee may be dissatisfied with the nature of his work or the conditions, he is not justified in leaving hastily without having another job to go to unless conditions are so intolerable that it is impossible to continue.
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| reconsideration of claim |
overpayment |
authority to write off |
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Decision 12811A
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The jurisprudence is clear that just cause is not present unless the employee has other employment to go to or conditions are intolerable with no possibility of being remedied. Merely not turning up for work without even advising employer is unacceptable.
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disqualification |
employment about to terminate |
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Decision 12767
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Clearly established in case law that dissatisfaction wtih conditions, whatever they be, is not sufficient, unless intolerable to point that employee has no choice but to leave.
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requests for information |
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Decision 12736
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No evidence that working conditions were such as to encourage a prudent individual to immediately leave without first securing other alternative employment.
Decision 12078
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Conditions must be so intolerable as to give rise to a genuine grievance coupled with reasonable steps to alleviate that grievance; if no other job in sight, there must be a good and compelling reason; standard to apply is that of reasonable man.
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Decision 11652
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Conditions intolerable to point claimant left. No efforts to try to improve. No assurance of other employment or very strong probability of obtaining other employment.
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applicability |
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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Decision 11468
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Advocate worker whose professional qualifications were not used by the City. Job frustration is a common phenomenon in various employment situations but it alone cannot constitute just cause. No attempt to find other work before leaving. 4-week disqualification upheld.
Decision 11413
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Working conditions not so unbearable that claimant had no choice. Not the best but earning a fair level of income. A prudent individual would not leave immediately without taking steps to find other work. Did not discuss reasons with employer. Disqualification reduced to 3 weeks.
Decision 11351
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Working conditions were not such as to encourage a prudent individual to immediately leave employment which was stable and likely to continue, without seeking other work.
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health reasons |
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
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Decision 11328
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Appeared that he left because he was not satisfied with conditions. Not established that conditions were so unacceptable as to justify leaving without first ensuring could get new employment.
Decision 11134
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Just cause may be established if the working conditions or the employment are unsatisfactory but it is well established that it means something more than the personal preference of the claimant.
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Decision 11105
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The background factors (different occupation, hours and site than expected) are ones a prudent employee is expected to deal with by approaching the employer and discussing them. A prudent person does not respond to such deficiencies by precipitously quitting.
Decision 08892
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Cases involving allegations of intolerable working conditions are almost vigorously contested. As a result, they involve 2 predominant questions, 1) the credibility of claimant and 2) if believed, whether he has taken all steps to bring the conditions to his employer's attention.
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| voluntarily leaving employment |
relations at work |
discrimination |
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