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I have been working for approximately 54 months at a cell phone repair shop they first hire me to renovate the store and they kept letting me work there every day of the week i would show up to do anything that needed done maintenance, dishes, tidying up my job consistently was to make there job easy hours would vary from day to day I was given a 13$ a hours cash everyday and had it listed on file after a month or two he would write me a flat check to go cash at the bank and come back and pay off what they had payed me Daly first years I had a look at the books salary was 10 000 seconds and third years I have no amount but I now I made at least 20 000 and this year in Rideau st in Ottawa were rents the shop he’s business well the owner hire me to fix the roof because part Love it was ripped off due to Highwinds and negligence and knew me from the prior year I had to fix another section of the roof well it being a big emergency I am mediately started to work and asked to be paid half of the quote I had sent well to make things work at the end I ended up doing a lot more work approximately $21,000 worth of work this summer which I had to fight to get 16,000 and which I only got paid 7000 of and that the owner of the shop where I work decided he was charging me taxes and taking a cut and since all the payments were going through his business account I never had access to the money ended up taking me for months to do a one and a half months job did not have money to hire anybody to do the work with me and I ended up not being able to get a big portion of the money and which I did the work because the place was falling apart all of this I’ve documented on video section per section every day of work I’ve done this summer explaining how I did the work to show how well it was done and how much work was involved now the small shop owner the one that runs from the owner iPhone has been a very good friend to me but just before the job was done he had fluid in me $8000 to pay materials and to live during the time I was working never in the amount more than $300 was given to me and it up at the end I old them money and I just could not understand why he just cut me off right after that I even continued working doing to clean up while I was doing your job and not punching in my To help them out and I haven’t had any money in the last three months he continued asking me to do things at the shop and doesn’t pay me I try to borrow money off and doesn’t borrow without any warning and he asked like nothing happened I wish I can collect the rest of the money from the owner or at least get something ordered the full amount of the job without him taking a cut what should I do
I was dismissed from cn rail after 5.7 months of service
On December 20th I was assigned to go to Ottawa to do an installation of a very heavy door. I was told to show up at my shop for 10:00 am that day and instead I used my own time and went in at 9:00 to build a device to assist me with the installation as it was only me assigned to do this job. My boss came into the shop while I was building, asked why I was there early, when I explained why and what I was doing he threw my work to the floor and told me it will not work, said I am the boss if you don't like it leave, then stormed out of the shop. I went to him to ask to have a meeting about what just happened and he said "no point, I no longer have a liking for you, find another place" then he drove off and left me standing there. He dismissed me without cause and he refused to respond to any of my text afterwards. I did not receive notice pay or severance pay. Prior to this I was never told that I was not working out in fact I was often praised at how efficient I was and received a bonus 2 weeks prior to this incident. My project manager was a witness to my bosses outburst in the shop and there are cameras in the shop but I cannot be sure that they work. Do I have a case of wrongful dismissal? I left my former job of 5 years to work for this guy in March 2018. Now there is no work out there in my field and he has left me in a horrible situation.
I gave my 2 weeks notice at my job and they ended my job before the 2 weeks. Is this legal ??
If the employer states the reason for termination as "just cause", whereas, in reality, the employer has breached the collective agreement, will the arbitrator ask the employer to reinstate?
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