Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles

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