Government of Canada

Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles

 

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