Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles

Table of contents

• 4.1.0   Authority
• 4.1.1   Application
• 4.1.2   Week of unemployment defined
• 4.1.3   Amount to be deducted
• 4.1.4   Factors to consider
• 4.1.5   Activities to be disregarded
  
  

• 4.2.0   Proof
• 4.2.1   Onus of proof
• 4.2.2   Evidence inadequate
• 4.2.3   Contradictory statements
• 4.2.4   Original statement denied
  
  

• 4.3.0   Hours controlled by employer
• 4.3.1   Employees in general
• 4.3.2   Piece workers
• 4.3.3   Railway employees
• 4.3.4   Employees in farming or horticulture
• 4.3.5   Lay days or periods of leave
  
  

• 4.4.0   Remuneration without work
• 4.4.1   Annual vacation period
• 4.4.2   Leave with pay
• 4.4.3   Compensatory leave
• 4.4.4   Deferred salary leave plans
• 4.4.5   Off-season covered by contract
• 4.4.6   Notice and severance pay
• 4.4.7   Damages for wrongful dismissal
• 4.4.8   Stand-by-hours
  
  

• 4.5.0   Work without remuneration
• 4.5.1   For an employer
• 4.5.2   Training period
• 4.5.3   Bankruptcy
• 4.5.4   For a relative or friend
• 4.5.5   For a spouse
• 4.5.6   Benevolent work
  
  

• 4.6.0   Independent workers working a full working week
• 4.6.1   Clientele concerned
• 4.6.2   Unemployment status and availability: two distinct requirements
• 4.6.3   Determination of engagement or investment
  • 4.6.3.1   Engagement in a business
  • 4.6.3.2   A natural concern for an investment
• 4.6.4   Exception to overcome the presumption of a full working week
  • 4.6.4.1   Circumstances determining whether a claimant's involvement is minor in extent
  • 4.6.4.2   Time spent
  • 4.6.4.3   Nature and amount of the capital and resources invested
  • 4.6.4.4   Financial success or failure of the employment or business
  • 4.6.4.5   Continuity of the employment or business
  • 4.6.4.6   Nature of the employment or business
  • 4.6.4.7   Claimant's intention and willingness to seek and immediately accept alternate employment
• 4.6.5   Engaged in the operation of a farming business
  • 4.6.5.1  Period defined in Regulation 30(4) - farming
• 4.6.6   Period preliminary to the opening of the business
• 4.6.7   Form of business organization
  • 4.6.7.1   Self-employed worker
  • 4.6.7.2   Sole proprietorship
  • 4.6.7.3   Partnership: general or limited
  • 4.6.7.4   Co-adventurer
  • 4.6.7.5   Corporation or limited company
• 4.6.8   Piercing the corporate veil
  • 4.6.8.1   Claimants who are corporate shareholders
• 4.6.9   Volunteering assistance to a business enterprise
• 4.6.10   Claim for special benefits
• 4.6.11   Issue of earnings
• 4.6.12   Employment activity known as self-employment
• 4.6.13   Flow chart — the determination process and Regulation 30
  
  

• 4.7.0   Independent workers—particular types
• 4.7.1   Tradespersons
• 4.7.2   Truck owners
• 4.7.3   Taxi drivers
• 4.7.4   Real estate agents or salespersons
• 4.7.5   Elected public officials
• 4.7.6   Professional people
• Appendix a type of contract