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Under what circumstance can my employer refuse to give me severance after 9 years employment.

Is age discrimination considered wrongful dismissal?

I was pulled into my hr managers office today regarding and verbal altercation. In which a day later id text the individual regarding the situation. With the text as follows "Listen i know you check to see if the mill actually went down and now youll realize the grenade of a shit storm you left me with. Ive been on this job lomg enough you can try and bullshit people amd say you didn't do this or didnt do that. But simply do the math if you only walked away 30 seconds before 11 howd that mill shut down unless everything was backed up roght to the bundler? Yes seeing you leave a lift you simply could have put away and made room on the table was a piss off and wrong. I will not clean your mess we had three cranes going one in each warehouse to make room for hadeer to be able to put shit so we could run. Does that even remotely sound like you only left with 30 second or left with me being avke to work properly ? Ask that before you try and play innocent any one thats been on this job long enough will see that math and its results. Please feel free to play innocent again please feel free to bitch to others about me. Man uo and say to me if you think im full of shit consodering last night i got there the same time i always do check the computer and did nothing different. So please tell what time that was ? Was it right at 11 as you claim or was the couple minutes to as you stated to me the other night ? I doubt youll man up to the truth " Now i received no response telling me not yo text him or telling me to stop at all. This is a person who weve text previously regarding work all be it usually on a happier note. Now this person is claiming harrassment and mau get fired. Is this harrassment and do they have grounds for termination

After a lengthy dispute, I officially resigned from my government job after I reached a settlement from being fired due to addictions to drugs. The money was good etc. I'm not at liberty to discuss the memorandum of settlement. How do I answer the question in interviews: why did you leave your previous job?

Can an employer force and employee to sign a document giving the employer the right to obtain the employee's medical record and if the employee refuses, can the employer terminate him/her?