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I have worked at my present job for 10 years at Elringklinger, and have done ap/ar and payroll for 8 of those years. Last fall our company which is owned by a german company, brought in a person from head office who wanted to work in Canada with the conditions that Elring gave his wife a job. She came in as an HR assistant and was going to be my back-up for payroll. In the past couple of months the HR manager has been giving me a hard time because of this girl asking her questions about stuff like EI and CPP. HR got mad at me because I did not tell her, but she did not come to me to ask the question. Now HR is accusing me of paying my friends more money and giving out confidential information about an employee who was fired but took a package. I found out that the employee fired texted his friends on the floor to tell them whet he got. I have never breeched confidentiality nor paid my friends more. They have 8 years of books they can look through for proof. My best friend is an hourly employee who works on the floor, and I know they are basing their accusations on that. Now yesterday, they took away my key to the payroll office, my admin swipe cards to the hand punches, and removed all access to they files I have had regarding payroll. My work load is now about 2 - 3 hrs a day, which means I end up sitting here trying to look like I am doing something for the 8 hours I am here. I am having anxiety issues coming to work now. I feel like my morals and work ethics have been tarnished and that everyone here is looking at me like that. I talked to my past boss and she said that that is constructive dismissal. Is this correct and is there something I can do about this?

I was fired from my job less than 24hrs ago for "excessive tardiness" due to my own going battles with mental health problems. I kept my employers up to date on all doctors appointments and produces doctors notes for some of my absences. Do I have a case

I have been a assistant manager with Walmart Canada for almost 2 years. Today they terminated my employment without any notice effective immediately because of restructuring that they are doing across Canada which basically is elimating the amount of managers that each store has. Inam wanting to know if I have any sort of wrongful dismissal case here. They want me to sign a paper agreeing to a payout of 4 weeks of pay severance. Is this a fair amount? Should I not sign this? I have 10 days to sign before the offer is revoked. Please help thank you.

Can I be denied LTD because of age? I turned 66 on Feb 3, 2017 while on STD which expired March 1st. I am still not able to return to work full time and have been advised I've been declined LTD. If I WAS able to go back to work, the firm has no job for me due to extreme reorganization. I feel lost. I didn't quit nor was I fired. Retirement papers have been initiated beginning May 1st providing me with $350 per month from which over $200 will have to pay my Insurances. Any advise would help. Thank you.

Can I be terminated for frustration while on ltd