Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles

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CHAPTER 8  — LABOUR DISPUTES

8.1.0    AUTHORITY
8.1.1    Purpose
8.1.2    Scope
8.1.3    Prerequisites
8.1.4    Exempting Conditions
8.1.5    Commencement of the Period of Disentitlement
8.1.6    Disentitlement for Days in a Week
8.1.7    Suspension of the Period of Disentitlement
8.1.8    Termination of the Period of Disentitlement
8.1.9    Proof
8.1.10    Newspaper Articles and Press Releases
8.2.0    LABOUR DISPUTE
8.2.1    Labour Dispute Defined
8.2.2    Distinctive Features of a Dispute
8.2.3    Parties to the Dispute
8.2.4    Matters in Dispute
8.2.5    Dispute at Place of Employment
8.2.6    Merits of Dispute
8.2.7    Commencement of Dispute
8.2.8    Settlement of Dispute
8.2.9    Sympathetic Dispute
8.3.0    PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT
8.3.1    Distinct Geographic Site
8.3.2    Activities or Services Sharing the Same Physical Site
8.3.3    Construction Industry
8.3.4    Logging Industry
8.3.5    Commercial Vehicles
8.3.6    Businesses of National Scope
8.3.7    Merchant Marine
8.4.0    STOPPAGE OF WORK
8.4.1    Stoppage of Work Defined
8.4.2    Scope of Work Stoppage
8.4.3    Cause-and-Effect Relationship Between Labour Dispute and Stoppage of Work
8.5.0    LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT, UNABLE TO RESUME AN EMPLOYMENT
8.5.1    Loss of Employment
8.5.2    Unable to Resume an Employment
8.5.3    Loss of or Unable to Resume Employment Because of a Stoppage of Work
8.5.4    Multiple Disputes or Stoppages
8.5.5    Lay-Off Prior to Stoppage of Work
8.5.6    Voluntarily Leaving Prior to Stoppage
8.5.7    On Leave at Time of Stoppage of Work
8.5.8    Recall to Work
8.5.9    Probationary Employees
8.5.10   Part-Time Employees
8.5.11   Temporary Employees
8.5.12   Casual Employees
8.5.13   Employees Hired or Recalled by Reason of Stoppage of Work
8.6.0    PARTICIPATION
8.6.1    Participation Defined
8.6.2    Union or Other Representation
8.6.3    Honouring the Picket Line
8.6.4    Lay-Off or No Work Available
8.6.5    Right to Cross Picket Line
8.6.6    Voluntary Withdrawal of Labour
8.6.7    Rebuttal of Voluntary Withdrawal
8.6.8    Legitimate Fear of Violence
8.6.9    Duration of Participation
8.7.0    FINANCING
8.7.1    What Does Financing a Dispute Mean?
8.7.2    Who Is Financing a Dispute?
8.7.3    Strike Fund
8.7.4    Other Forms of Financing
8.7.5    Period of Financing
8.8.0   DIRECT INTEREST
8.8.1    Definition of the Expression Directly Interested
8.8.2    Ratification of Collective Agreement
8.8.3    Several Labour Agreements in Dispute
8.8.4    Working Conditions Governed by Legislation
8.8.5    Application or Interpretation of a Clause
8.8.6    Dispute Over Union Affiliation
8.8.7    Employment or Dismissal of Certain Employees
8.8.8    Policy of Union Solidarity
8.8.9    Rebuttal of Direct Interest
8.8.10   Non-Union Workers
8.8.11   Duration of Direct Interest
8.9.0    DISENTITLEMENT FOR A NUMBER OF DAYS IN A WEEK
8.9.1    Part-Time Employment
8.9.2    Disentitlement Proportional to Part-Time Employment
8.9.3    Average Weekly Earnings from Part-Time Employment
8.9.4    Weekly Insurable Earnings in the Rate Calculation Period
8.10.0    SUSPENSION OF THE DISENTITLEMENT
8.10.1    Otherwise Entitled to Benefits
8.10.2    Supplementary Condition
8.10.3    Acceptable Proof
8.10.4    Period Suspended
8.11.0    TERMINATION OF THE STOPPAGE OF WORK
8.11.1    Normal Situation
8.11.2    Settlement of Dispute, Resumption of Activities
8.11.3    Circumstances Preventing the Attainment of a Minimum of 85%
8.11.4    Discontinuance of Business, Permanent Restructuring, Act of God
8.11.5    Changes Due to Technology, Economic or Market Conditions
8.11.6    Exceptional or Temporary Measures
8.11.7    New Employees Permanently Hired
8.11.8    Shutdown During the Off-Season
8.12.0    OTHER EMPLOYMENT DURING THE STOPPAGE OF WORK
8.12.1    Engaged Elsewhere in Insurable Employment
8.12.2    Regularly
8.13.0    TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT DURING A WORK STOPPAGE
8.13.1    Complete and Final Severance of the Employer-Employee Relationship
8.13.2    Temporary Employment or Employment About to Terminate
8.13.3    Dismissal
8.13.4    Resignation
8.13.5 Retirement