The "Information Handbook for Employment Insurance Board of Referees" is available in PDF format - the file can be opened with the freely available Acrobat Reader.
Table of Contents
- Canada Employment Insurance Commission
- The Commission's legislative and administrative powers under the Employment Insurance Act and Regulations
- Overview of the EI system
3.1 Applying for Employment Insurance benefits
3.2 The Commission's determination of eligibility for EI benefits - The EI appeal system
- Appeals to the EI Board of Referees
- Role of the EI Boards of Referees
- Service pledge
- The hearing room
- Adjourning the hearing
- Attending the hearing
10.1 Attendance of the claimant or employer
10.2 Attendance of the Commission
10.3 Board of Referees quorum - Telephone and video conference hearings
- Conducting the hearing
- Taping the hearing
- Deliberations of the Board of Referees and decision writing
- Implementing the Board's decision
- Request for reconsideration and de novo hearings
16.1 Request for reconsideration
16.2 De novo hearings
- Media access
- Impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Appointments to EI Boards of Referees
- Continuing eligibility as a Board member
- Renewal
- Conflict of interest
- Privacy
- Security clearance
- Remuneration and allowances