Can I get EI if I quit my job and take full time courses?
- 主题发起人 小帆
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You cannot collect EI, if you quit the job on your own without just cause.
Just cause for voluntarily leaving an employment or taking leave from an employment exists if the claimant had no reasonable alternative to leaving or taking leave, having regard to all the circumstances, including any of the following:
(i) sexual or other harassment,
(ii) obligation to accompany a spouse, common-law partner or dependent child to another residence,
(iii) discrimination on a prohibited ground of discrimination within the meaning of the Canadian Human Rights Act,
(iv) working conditions that constitute a danger to health or safety,
(v) obligation to care for a child or a member of the immediate family, (vi) reasonable assurance of another employment in the immediate future,
(vii) significant modification of terms and conditions respecting wages or salary,
(viii) excessive overtime work or refusal to pay for overtime work,
(ix) significant changes in work duties,
(x) antagonism with a supervisor if the claimant is not primarily responsible for the antagonism,
(xi) practices of an employer that are contrary to law,
(xii) discrimination with regard to employment because of membership in an association, organization or union of workers,
(xiii) undue pressure by an employer on the claimant to leave their employment, and
(xiv) any other reasonable circumstances that are prescribed.
While on EI, you may take training course. But the course must be approved by HRSDC.
Just cause for voluntarily leaving an employment or taking leave from an employment exists if the claimant had no reasonable alternative to leaving or taking leave, having regard to all the circumstances, including any of the following:
(i) sexual or other harassment,
(ii) obligation to accompany a spouse, common-law partner or dependent child to another residence,
(iii) discrimination on a prohibited ground of discrimination within the meaning of the Canadian Human Rights Act,
(iv) working conditions that constitute a danger to health or safety,
(v) obligation to care for a child or a member of the immediate family, (vi) reasonable assurance of another employment in the immediate future,
(vii) significant modification of terms and conditions respecting wages or salary,
(viii) excessive overtime work or refusal to pay for overtime work,
(ix) significant changes in work duties,
(x) antagonism with a supervisor if the claimant is not primarily responsible for the antagonism,
(xi) practices of an employer that are contrary to law,
(xii) discrimination with regard to employment because of membership in an association, organization or union of workers,
(xiii) undue pressure by an employer on the claimant to leave their employment, and
(xiv) any other reasonable circumstances that are prescribed.
While on EI, you may take training course. But the course must be approved by HRSDC.
So if I have no chance to be laid off, then I have no chance to take EI. But if I got laid off, then I can take EI and if I take training courses authorized by HRSDC then the government would pay some of it.
And if I would like to update myself, I have to take parttime courses.In my case, I can hardly have time to do that.
That's why sometimes being a contract is a good idea. Cuz we really have tiny opportunity to use EI even we pay for it.
Does anyone have the experience to change himself from full-time employee to parttime employee (like working half day each day or 3 days a week) temporately before he finishes the courses?
And if I would like to update myself, I have to take parttime courses.In my case, I can hardly have time to do that.
That's why sometimes being a contract is a good idea. Cuz we really have tiny opportunity to use EI even we pay for it.
Does anyone have the experience to change himself from full-time employee to parttime employee (like working half day each day or 3 days a week) temporately before he finishes the courses?
