Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles
4.1.0 AUTHORITY
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4.1.1 Application
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4.1.2 Week of Unemployment Defined
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4.1.3 Amount to be Deducted
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4.1.4 Factors to Consider
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4.1.5 Activities to be Disregarded
4.2.0 PROOF
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4.2.1 Onus of Proof
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4.2.2 Evidence Inadequate
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4.2.3 Contradictory Statements
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4.2.4 Original Statement Denied
4.3.0 HOURS CONTROLLED BY EMPLOYER
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4.3.1 Employees in General
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4.3.2 Piece Workers
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4.3.3 Railway Employees
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4.3.4 Employees in Farming or Horticulture
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4.3.5 Lay Days or Periods of Leave
4.4.0 REMUNERATION WITHOUT WORK
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4.4.1 Annual Vacation Period
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4.4.2 Leave With Pay
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4.4.3 Compensatory Leave
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4.4.4 Deferred Salary Leave Plans
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4.4.5 Off-Season Covered by Contract
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4.4.6 Notice and Severance Pay
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4.4.7 Damages for Wrongful Dismissal
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4.4.8 Stand-by-hours
4.5.0 WORK WITHOUT REMUNERATION
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4.5.1 For an Employer
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4.5.2 Training Period
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4.5.3 Bankruptcy
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4.5.4 For a Relative or Friend
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4.5.5 For a Spouse
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4.5.6 Benevolent Work
4.6.0 INDEPENDENT WORKERS WORKING A FULL WORKING WEEK
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4.6.1 Clientele Concerned
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4.6.2 Unemployment Status and Availability: Two Distinct Requirements
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4.6.3 Determination of Engagement or Investment
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4.6.3.1 Engagement in a Business
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4.6.3.2 A Natural Concern for an Investment
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4.6.4 Exception to Overcome the Presumption of a Full Working Week
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4.6.4.1 Circumstances Determining Whether a Claimant’s Involvement is Minor in Extent
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4.6.4.2 Time Spent
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4.6.4.3 Nature and Amount of the Capital and Resources Invested
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4.6.4.4 Financial Success or Failure of the Employment or Business
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4.6.4.5 Continuity of the Employment or Business
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4.6.4.6 Nature of the Employment or Business
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4.6.4.7 Claimant's Intention and Willingness to Seek and Immediately Accept Alternate Employment
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4.6.5 Engaged in the Operation of a Farming Business
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4.6.5.1 Period Defined in Regulation 30(4)-Farming
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4.6.6 Period Preliminary to the Opening of the Business
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4.6.7 Form of Business Organization
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4.6.7.1 Self-Employed Worker
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4.6.7.2 Sole Proprietorship
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4.6.7.3 Partnership: General or Limited
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4.6.7.4 Co-Adventurer
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4.6.7.5 Corporation or Limited Company
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4.6.8 Piercing the Corporate Veil
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4.6.8.1 Claimants who are Corporate Shareholders
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4.6.9 Volunteering Assistance to a Business Enterprise
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4.6.10 Claim for Special Benefits
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4.6.11 Issue of Earnings
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4.6.12 Employment Activity Known as Self-Employment
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4.6.13 Flow Chart—The Determination Process and Regulation 30
4.7.0 INDEPENDENT WORKERS—PARTICULAR TYPES
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4.7.1 Tradespersons
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4.7.2 Truck Owners
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4.7.3 Taxi Drivers
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4.7.4 Real Estate Agents or Salespersons
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4.7.5 Elected Public Officials
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4.7.6 Professional People
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Appendix A Type of contract
