Can I collect employment insurance if I quit due to wage reduction or rollback?
Question: Can I collect employment insurance if I quit due to wage reduction or rollback?
Can anybody confirm? Thank you.
Aside: Here's some info that I found...
Service Canada
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/e..._leaving.shtml
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A number of circumstances for quitting are considered just cause
-major changes in the terms and conditions of your job affecting wages or salary
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/e..._8.shtml#6_3_8
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a decrease in a person's total take-home pay can constitute just cause for voluntarily leaving employment
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/e..._0.shtml#6_4_1
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Wages–Unjustified Reduction
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/e...html#a6_4_1_34
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legitimate hope to increase or at least maintain one's salary level
Just Cause: actual or potential loss of wages based on reasonable grounds
Alberta Queen’s Printer:
http://www.qp.alberta.ca/574.cfm?pag...=9780779725663
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Termination of employment by an employee
58(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), to terminate employment an employee must give the employer a written termination notice of at least
(a) one week, if the employee has been employed by the employer for more than 3 months but less than 2 years, or
(b) 2 weeks, if the employee has been employed by the employer for 2 years or more.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply when
(i) an employee terminates the employment because of a reduction in wage rate, overtime rate, vacation pay, general holiday pay or termination pay.
Update: Thank you got my answer.
Re: Can I collect employment insurance if I quit due to wage reduction or rollback?
Let me get this straight, you have a job but want to loose it on purpose so you can be a leech to society? Nice call. Its people like you that take advantage of the system, that ruin it and give a bad name to those who legitimately require temporary assistance. Shame on you.
Re: Re: Can I collect employment insurance if I quit due to wage reduction or rollback?
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Originally posted by pinoyhero
Let me get this straight, you have a job but want to loose it on purpose so you can be a leech to society? Nice call. Its people like you that take advantage of the system, that ruin it and give a bad name to those who legitimately require temporary assistance. Shame on you.
I completely disagree. It is companies like his that are taking advantage of the downturn to give it to thim up the ass. He's doing the right thing by quitting and collecting EI - he pays into it, so he's perfectly entitled to draw benefits from it.
EI is far and away the most profitable government program. Do you know how many hundreds of millions it runs in surplus every year?
Re: Re: Can I collect employment insurance if I quit due to wage reduction or rollback?
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Originally posted by pinoyhero
Let me get this straight, you have a job but want to loose it on purpose so you can be a leech to society? Nice call. Its people like you that take advantage of the system, that ruin it and give a bad name to those who legitimately require temporary assistance. Shame on you.
:facepalm:
Re: Re: Re: Can I collect employment insurance if I quit due to wage reduction or rollback?
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Originally posted by Jim Rome99
I completely disagree. It is companies like his that are taking advantage of the downturn to give it to thim up the ass. He's doing the right thing by quitting and collecting EI - he pays into it, so he's perfectly entitled to draw benefits from it.
EI is far and away the most profitable government program. Do you know how many hundreds of millions it runs in surplus every year?
If he doesn't want to work there he doesn't have to, but get another job. If he wants to work at a company where economic downturn and decreasing company profits dont result in decreased pay or lay off he should work for a union ... say the CAW.
That being said I agree he is entitled to collect what he's paid, but quitting seems against the spirit of the program.