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'''NOTE:''' In these cases the length of disqualification is appealable. | '''NOTE:''' In these cases the length of disqualification is appealable. | ||
Section 30(1) states that a claimant is disqualified when he or she is fired due to his or her own misconduct or when he or she quits without just cause. However, s 35 states that s 30(1) does not | Section 30(1) states that a claimant is disqualified when he or she is fired due to his or her own misconduct or when he or she quits without just cause. However, s 35 states that s 30(1) does not disqualify a claimant from receiving benefits if remaining in or accepting employment would interfere with the claimant's membership in a union or the claimant's ability to observe a union's rules. | ||
The effect of a s 30 disqualification is a cut-off of all regular benefits in a benefit period. Such a disqualification is imposed if the claimant has lost any job in the qualifying period for the reasons set out in s 30, even if the claimant had other work before applying for EI (ss 30(5) and (6)). Only if the claimant has worked enough hours since the disqualifying loss of employment to meet the hourly requirements to establish a claim will the disqualification not be imposed. For example, if a worker is employed in a job for five years, and gets fired for misconduct, the worker would be totally disqualified under s 30 from all regular benefits. If the worker subsequently finds a second job, and gets laid off from that second job after 10 weeks, the total insurable employment would be calculated as the number of hours worked during those 10 weeks '''after''' the earlier s 30 disqualification. The worker’s previous five years of insurable employment would not count unless the worker had enough hours in the 10-week period to qualify under the s.7 table. In that case, the previous hours would count toward the number of weeks of payable benefits. | |||
=== 1. Just Cause for Voluntarily Leaving Employment === | === 1. Just Cause for Voluntarily Leaving Employment === | ||
