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View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I am pleased because this is going to allow me to clarify one of the points in the information you sent us.
If someone applies for employment insurance and is denied benefits, this refusal occurs at the Employment Insurance Commission. Since benefits have been denied, the person appeals to the Board of Referees. At that stage, you told us, appeal files are sent by regular mail. The person does not receive his or her file by some other type of mail.
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
So, priority post. When we were talking about the 10-day turnaround earlier, we were talking about documents being sent by priority post.
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
So the person has 30 days to file an appeal before the Board of Referees. Who calls the person to provide the date of the hearing that will take place before the board? Is it the clerk of the committee?
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
The person meets an employment insurance agent and the claim is denied. At that point, who prepares the appeal file, the document that will be used for the defence before the Board of Referees?
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
It is the information that is in the person's file with regard to the denied benefits. So it is the commission alone that prepares that document.
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
The commission appoints the panel members that sit on the Board of Referees. It appoints the chairperson, who represents the commission. The commission also prepares all of the information. It conveys the information to the Board of Referees for the appellant's file.
Consequently, claimants are alone to defend their appeal in the presence of these three panel members.
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
The last time, witnesses told us that files often came late. Normally, there is a 10-day timeframe so that people can prepare to go before the board. But the time period is actually less: people only have six or seven days to prepare the file with the worker, rather than 10 days. It is not the fault of the clerk, since she waits for the information to come from the Employment Insurance Commission. This reduces the time. And that is the problem. Have you any solutions to propose that could correct this situation?
Also, a lot of workers do not go before the board alone. They have neither the knowledge nor the competence to represent themselves. So they must call on legal aid to obtain the services of a lawyer. There are also delays involved in that.
Is all that taken into account when people try to facilitate a worker's defence, to have someone represent him?
Does the clerk send the appeal file to the worker's representatives, or is the worker the only one to be called? Does the clerk also call the worker's lawyer or advocate so as to inform that person as well?
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
However, if the claimant tells you that he has a lawyer, if he provides you with a name or contact information or tells you that someone will be representing him, why do not you communicate with that person?
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
I would appreciate that.
When a claimant does not have enough knowledge to defend himself and must call on someone to represent him, that second person should be informed quickly.
On the matter of time frames, we have heard that it takes six to seven days to prepare a file. Do you think you can improve that?
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
Since these workers do not have any income while this is going on, they want things to get settled as quickly as possible.
View Josée Beaudin Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you very much.
Thank you for joining us today.
I would like to come back to something you said earlier, Ms. Rosengren. You said you administer antibiotics to all of your birds, because they are at different stages of a disease and because you want to avoid having to use more powerful antibiotics.
Are you saying that antibiotics are administered to chicks as well as to adult birds?
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