CEC application rejected

[seton]

It was rejected after an year of waiting. I am not sure why this point was not noticed by the team at the time of accepting application.

Unfortunately it just doesn't work that way. The initial assessments done are for completeness of documentation (all forms completed properly, etc.) rather than eligibility, which is usually done at a later stage after the acknowledgement of receipt. That's why it's so important to quadruple check an application before submitting to ensure that all criteria is met, because it may take such a long time to get the application returned.

 

[qszhc123]

If it should always be longer than 30 hours, how about the week around Christmas? We had a two-day off, and just worked for 3*8=24 hours, was this a full-time week then?

 

[rams2me]

any designated holiday is considered as paid holiday. Even you are not working on 25th and 26th Dec, the employer will be paying. Not sure about other cases this is what happening to me for last three years.
Literally you will be clocking it in effort logger and eventually will show up as 40 hrs worked in pay slip.

 

[qszhc123]

any designated holiday is considered as paid holiday. Even you are not working on 25th and 26th Dec, the employer will be paying. Not sure about other cases this is what happening to me for last three years.
Literally you will be clocking it in effort logger and eventually will show up as 40 hrs worked in pay slip.

Our company's policy is, new employees(not permanent) don't get statutory payment in their first month of work, so I didn't get Christmas payment for 2013, which means I just worked 24 hours and just got 24 hours pay. Should that week still be counted as a not-full-week?

 

[caththisking]

Unfortunately it just doesn't work that way. The initial assessments done are for completeness of documentation (all forms completed properly, etc.) rather than eligibility, which is usually done at a later stage after the acknowledgement of receipt. That's why it's so important to quadruple check an application before submitting to ensure that all criteria is met, because it may take such a long time to get the application returned.

At least based on start date and end date provided in the application, they should verify. Else there is no point. Not sure what this applicants dates in application.

 

[jes_ON]

Our company's policy is, new employees(not permanent) don't get statutory payment in their first month of work, so I didn't get Christmas payment for 2013, which means I just worked 24 hours and just got 24 hours pay. Should that week still be counted as a not-full-week?

Correct. Technically, that would be a part-time week, and you would need to work an extra week of at least 6 hours.

But as long as you give yourself enough of a cushion (e.g. apply a month after you qualify, not the next day), then you don't need to worry about this.

 

[qszhc123]

Correct. Technically, that would be a part-time week, and you would need to work an extra week of at least 6 hours.

But as long as you give yourself enough of a cushion (e.g. apply a month after you qualify, not the next day), then you don't need to worry about this.

Thanks for you reply.
Unfortunately I couldn't wait, we all know EE would start from January 1st.
I started working on Dec. 17th, 2013 and I submitted my application on Dec. 23th, 2014.
Sorry to bother you, but how about this, if there are two weeks of 24 hours working, will CIC just ignore them since neither of them meet the definition of full-time week or they will merge the two-weeks and count it as one full-time week?
If it's the first case, my application would fail, since I had a one-week unpaid, out of Canada, vacation in the year.
I checked my time card carefully and I just had 51 full-time weeks, a 24-hour week and a 16-hour week.
Thanks!

 

[jes_ON]

Thanks for you reply.
Unfortunately I couldn't wait, we all know EE would start from January 1st.
I started working on Dec. 17th, 2013 and I submitted my application on Dec. 23th, 2014.
Sorry to bother you, but how about this, if there are two weeks of 24 hours working, will CIC just ignore them since neither of them meet the definition of full-time week or they will merge the two-weeks and count it as one full-time week?
If it's the first case, my application would fail, since I had a one-week unpaid, out of Canada, vacation in the year.
I checked my time card carefully and I just had 51 full-time weeks, a 24-hour week and a 16-hour week.
Thanks!

For part-time weeks, the "full-time equivalent" is calculated by adding the hours together and dividing by 30.

So - 24+16=40, 40/30=1.3 weeks. So you have just squeeked by with a total of 52 weeks : ) Good luck!

 

[qszhc123]

For part-time weeks, the "full-time equivalent" is calculated by adding the hours together and dividing by 30.

So - 24+16=40, 40/30=1.3 weeks. So you have just squeeked by with a total of 52 weeks : ) Good luck!

That's very helpful, thank you!!

 

[Gareth29]

How about if you work in Alberta and you are on shift work? As in you work 3 weeks on and get 1 week off? However you work Saturdays and Sunday's also during your 3 weeks on. Will they still see that as a normal working week? Because really the week I got off after 3 weeks of work is my 3 weekends all in a row.

 

[jes_ON]

How about if you work in Alberta and you are on shift work? As in you work 3 weeks on and get 1 week off? However you work Saturdays and Sunday's also during your 3 weeks on. Will they still see that as a normal working week? Because really the week I got off after 3 weeks of work is my 3 weekends all in a row.

Yes, we've seen this before. I think if that is explained in the letter of employment and it is the norm for full-time work in your industry/NOC, then yes, it will be accepted.