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I worked for a dr in his practice as a office nurse. I was in a bad car accident and hhave been off for a year and a half and the dr's say I will be off longer. early on I informed him that the dr's did not know how long I would be off for. I have concussion problems and my epilepsy is acting up. I recently heard that my employer is moving his practice to B.C. I have received no notice or nothing from him. I have not been in contact with him, he did find a replacement for me as is allowed to do. is that almost the same as letting me go while I am off sick or from dr's orders. which he is not allowed to do. will he owe me severance if he leaves and how long do I have? is it a year or 2 from the time he leaves or closes, which is essentially the end of my employment, even though I am off. I never said I wouldn't be back to work ever. Thanks, Jen

Can an employee be fired while stress leave, even if they are still om probation

I was just terminated from my job of 7 years. The reason they gave was that they are going another way. They never told me to improve on anything and I am completely blindsided. They gave me a contract and it says I need to bring it back signed in 4 days or i won’t get anything. They want to give 7 weeks pay and 4 weeks of gift pay. Is this a fair offer? Do I have a case to ask for more?

i was working for a company as an IT Security contractor when they told me that they were not going to renew my contract however they wanted me to join them as a permanent employee. after a long consideration i took it but was unsure due to the attitude of the manager of the IT department and his lack of knowledgement, lack of employee management skills and his outright bull headedness, However the people I was working with in the department were fantastic, and we got along great. After i started the in the permanent position our company was infected with a crypto virus. Immediately the manager blamed a fellow employee for the infection before we even logged into the system and that he was going to fire him immediately. This employee was on vacation during this time and was not able to access the systems so i explained to him that I was not going to let this happen until i found the evidence to support this claim. The more and more i looked into the issue the more and more things were not adding up, I was finding evidence of things being covered up, deleted and it just was adding up. Eventually i found what i needed and was able to prove that it was the manger who was the actual cause of the issue. I took my findings to HR and explained to them what I had found and that if i brought this to my manager he would fire me. THEY advised me to confront him and maybe it would build trust between us. I took their advice and sure enough 3 days later I was let go for "not being a good fit for the team" and that i was still on probation. This was in fact not true as in fact 4 months later and were still meeting on fridays for a beer and laughs. This company is a large medical center all over canada and i expected that the advice I received, and the fact that it was HR that gave it to me that they would have been there to protect me from this happening. My question is do i have a case?

can i get terminated from someone saying i offered morphine even though i didn't?