Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles

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CHAPTER 6  VOLUNTARILY LEAVING EMPLOYMENT

6.1.0  VOLUNTARILY LEAVING DEFINED

6.2.0  TEST

  • 6.2.1 A Test Reflecting the Standards of the Jurisprudence
  • 6.2.2 A Crucial Test: No Reasonable Alternative but to Leave
  • 6.2.3 When All Reasonable Alternatives Have Been Exhausted
  • 6.2.4 A Test Based on Fact Finding with All the Parties
  • 6.2.5 Benefit of the Doubt

6.3.0  CIRCUMSTANCES

  • 6.3.1 Circumstances Prompted by Jurisprudence
  • 6.3.2 Sexual or Other Harassment
  • 6.3.3 Obligation to Accompany a Spouse or Dependent Child to Another Residence
  • 6.3.4 Discrimination on a Prohibited Ground
  • 6.3.5 Working Conditions that Constitute a Danger to Health or Safety
  • 6.3.6 Obligation to Care for a Child or a Member of the Immediate Family
  • 6.3.7 Reasonable Assurance of Another Employment in the Immediate Future
  • 6.3.8 Significant Modification of Terms and Conditions Respecting Wages and Salary
  • 6.3.9   Excessive Overtime Work or Refusal to Pay for Overtime Work
  • 6.3.10 Significant Changes in Work Duties
  • 6.3.11 Antagonistic Relations Between an Employee and a Supervisor
  • 6.3.12 Practices of an Employer that are Contrary to Law
  • 6.3.13 Discrimination with Regard to Employment because of Membership in a Union
  • 6.3.14 Undue Pressure by an Employer on Employees to Leave their Employment

6.4.0  CHECKLIST

  • 6.4.1 List Of 40 Main Reasons Which May Amount To Just Cause (Alphabetical Order

6.5.0  VARIA

  • 6.5.1    Work Force Reduction
  • 6.5.1.1 Regulatory Authority
  • 6.5.1.2 Within a Particular Context
  • 6.5.1.3 Definition by Regulation
  • 6.5.1.4  Distinct Responsibilities
  • 6.5.1.5 Important Questions
  • 6.5.2     Leaving part-time employment held concurrently with full-time employment
  • 6.5.3     Suspension of seniority rights during a lay-off

6.6.0  PERIODS OF LEAVE AND ANTICIPATED LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT

  • 6.6.1 Authorized Period of Leave–Section 32 of the Act
  • 6.6.2 Anticipated Loss of Employment–Section 33 of the Act
  • 6.6.3 Special Benefits