decisions
- Other recently published decisions
- Featured decisions
- Decisions reviewed by a court
100 result(s)
-
76.
Canada Employment Insurance Commission v PN - 2024 SST 108 - 2024-02-06
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of fact - Without regard to the evidence
EI - Availability for work - While in school/training
EI - Denied for voluntary leave/quit
Summary: The Claimant applied for Employment Insurance (EI) benefits. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (Commission) decided that she had voluntarily left her job without just cause. It also decided t...
-
77.
SB v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 90 - 2024-01-30
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following legislation
EI - Denied for voluntary leave/quit - Just Cause - Unsafe work or unlawful practices
Summary: The Appellant left his job on August 20, 2022, and applied for Employment Insurance (EI) benefits. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (Commission) looked at the Appellant’s reasons for leaving...
-
78.
AM v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 1745 - 2023-12-04
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - Error of fact - Without regard to the evidence
Appeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following legislation
EI - Availability for work - While in school/training
Jurisdiction
Summary: The Appellant collected benefits while he attended a full-time training program to which he was referred. Then he continued with additional related training without a referral. The Canada Employment I...
-
79.
TB v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 1736 - 2023-11-30
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law - Ignoring evidence
Appeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following case law
EI - Qualifying for benefits - Self-employed
Summary: The Appellant left his job in August 2021 to focus on his renovation and home repair business. His child was born prematurely on January 10, 2022. The Appellant took time away from his business to car...
-
80.
GB v Minister of Employment and Social Development and KB - 2023 SST 1648 - 2023-11-19
Other Canada Pension Plan (CPP) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - De Novo - Allowed
CPP - Credit split
Summary: The Appellant and the Added Party once married. They divorced but then got back together again for a few years before separating once and for all. The Added Party applied for a Division of Unadjusted ...
-
81.
CL v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 1383 - 2023-10-16
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following case law
EI - Denied for voluntary leave/quit - Reasonable alternative(s) to leaving
Summary: The Appellant worked as a research associate at a hospital. As part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital made efforts to protect the safety of its patients, family, and staff. The ho...
-
82.
CE v Canada Employment Insurance Commission and X - 2021 SST 388 - 2021-08-04
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedCredibility
Summary: Employment Insurance – Disqualification – quit job – just cause – toxic workplace
...
-
83.
JP v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 637 - 2023-05-29
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Remedy - Decide appeal or return to General Division
EI - Denied for misconduct - Non-compliance to vaccination policy
Procedural fairness - Right to present your case
Summary: The Appellant worked as a wastewater technician for the City of Toronto. On November 8, 2021, his employer placed him on an unpaid leave of absence after he refused to provide proof that he had receiv...
-
84.
SJ v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2023 SST 1802 - 2023-12-15
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedCPP - Disability
Res judicata (previous decision binding)
Summary: The Appellant applied for the Canada Pension Plan disability pension four times. Her third application was in January 2008. The Minister of Employment and Social Development (the Minister) denied the ...
-
85.
JC v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 341 - 2023-03-15
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Appellant lost his job early in the COVID-19 pandemic, on March 31, 2020. At the time, the two types of emergency response benefits available were the Employment Insurance Emergency Response Benef...
-
86.
Minister of Employment and Social Development v SH - 2020 SST 381 - 2020-03-19
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability - Appeal Division - Interlocutory orderSummary: CPP – The Claimant started receiving a CPP disability benefit in February 1995. She has three children born in 1997, 1999 and 2002. The Claimant applied for the Disabled Contributor’s Child’s Benefit ...
-
87.
RM v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 1455 - 2023-11-06
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following legislation
EI - Availability for work - While in school/training
Summary: The Appellant applied for and received regular Employment Insurance benefits while attending school. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) decided that the Appellant was not enti...
-
88.
PF v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2022 SST 410 - 2022-05-23
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Application for leave to appeal refusedSummary: The Applicant applied for Employment Insurance regular benefits in July 2021, and his application was approved. In November 2021, the Applicant left Canada and travelled to a secondary residence in th...
-
89.
SB v Minister of Employment and Social Development and X - 2024 SST 50 - 2024-01-11
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability - General Division - Appeal dismissedCPP - Death benefit
Summary: On August 17, 2013, C.B. passed away. A funeral was held. On September 5, 2013, the Added Party, X, provided the Minister of Employment and Social Development (the Minister) with a death benefit appli...
-
90.
BA v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2023 SST 1865 - 2023-12-20
Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) - General Division - Appeal allowed in partOAS - Residence - Factors used to determine residence
Summary: The Appellant was born in India on April X, 1951. He came to Canada as a permanent resident on November 17, 2000. He became a Canadian citizen in 2010. Since coming to Canada, he has also spent time i...
-
91.
NS v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 1686 - 2023-11-07
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAgreement/settlement
EI - Availability for work - While in school/training
Procedural fairness - Right to present your case
Summary: The Appellant applied for Employment Insurance regular benefits. In his application for benefits, the Appellant said that he was taking a course on his own initiative.
...
-
92.
Canada Employment Insurance Commission v HC - 2023 SST 1379 - 2023-10-20
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following case law
EI - Denied for voluntary leave/quit - Reasonable alternative(s) to leaving
Summary: The General Division found that the Respondent had been suspended from her employment because of misconduct. She had not complied with her employer’s vaccination policy. This meant that she was disent...
-
93.
ZL v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 1753 - 2023-11-28
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedJurisdiction
Late appeals - Over one year
Summary: The Appellant received only partial benefits while he was on a work-share program. However, his employer never paid its portion, so the Appellant asked the Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the ...
-
94.
Canada Employment Insurance Commission v SB - 2023 SST 1794 - 2023-12-12
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowed in partAppeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following legislation
EI - ERB
Summary: The Claimant made a claim for the Employment Insurance Emergency Response Benefit (ERB). Under the ERB program, claimants were entitled to a $500.00 weekly benefit if they met the ERB eligibility requ...
-
95.
Canada Employment Insurance Commission v AM - 2023 SST 1329 - 2023-10-03
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAgreement/settlement
Appeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following case law
EI - ERB
Summary: The Respondent applied for Employment Insurance benefits and claimed the Emergency Response Benefit. After he applied, the Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) advanced him $2000.00...
-
96.
SM v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2023 SST 1764 - 2023-12-07
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedCPP - Disability - Severe
Summary: The Appellant is a 42-year-old survivor of an abusive relationship. In September 2018, the Appellant was arguing with her then boyfriend when he took out a gun and threatened to kill himself. When she...
-
97.
MH v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2023 SST 1457 - 2023-11-27
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - De Novo - Allowed
CPP - Disability
Late request for reconsideration
Summary: The Appellant is a former financial planning associate at a bank. She has a long history of mental health problems. She went on sick leave in August 2017 and hasn’t worked since. The Appellant applied...
-
98.
BH v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2023 SST 1296 - 2023-09-27
Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - De Novo - Dismissed
Guaranteed Income Supplement - Eligibility
Summary: The Appellant applied for the Guaranteed Income Supplement in April 2006. In her application, she said she was widowed. The Minister of Employment and Social Development (the Minister) approved the ap...
-
99.
Canada Employment Insurance Commission v LC et al. - 2024 SST 24 - 2024-01-09
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following case law
Charter appeals - Merits
EI - Maternity and parental benefits - Benefit window
EI - Number of weeks of regular benefits
EI - Qualifying for benefits - Extension of qualifying period
Summary: The Claimants received parental and maternity benefits. They all lost their jobs before or after they were off work or during that time. Then, they all applied for Employment Insurance (EI) regular be...
-
100.
HM v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 1330 - 2023-10-04
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law
Jurisdiction
Late appeals - Extension of time
Procedural fairness
Summary: The Appellant made a claim for Employment Insurance benefits. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) decided that the Appellant was not entitled to receive benefits from June 21, ...