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Hello, I have been working for my employer for just over 4 years. 3 year active employment and 1 year of maternity leave that will be ending in March. Before going on mat leave my manager hinted that my position should nit be a full time one. Now I can't get a straight answer whether I have a job to go back to or what my hours are going to be. I can't plan for daycare or look for another job as I'm still on maternity leave. My manager responded to my email with "We are still going through training on the E2 – next training session is Feb 21 and 22 for a “shot in the arm” for Gary and Sharon and myself. At this point we still do not know how the total implementation of E2 will affect the workload on the reception desk. Colleen is working now from 10 until 3:00 – but she is also inputting time sheets along with other job costing data. Once everything is going through E2 – time tickets and job costing data entry will become obsolete. " I am the only employee getting affected by this. While pregnant I was told that I'm not honest about how much time I'm taking off, and that I'm slacking off (although my work was always done on time). They invoked an Emergency Leave of Absence when I needed to take 2 days of to look after my sick 5 year old (I was a salaried employee and sick days have alway been paid), however the year before my coworker took a week plus few extra days to take care of her adult daughter who was hospitalized and under medical care of hospital staff. Her time off was paid and she was told to take as much time as she needs. She has also left early on multiple occasions to drive her daughter to work. Taking it all into consideration I belive this situation is due to my pregnancy and maternity leave. Before pregnancy I was told that my duties might change with implementation of E2 but my full time employment will continue. When I took the job, I was told this is a permanent position. What are my rights in this situation? .

Yesterday I was fired and given my pay until the end of the week and the vacation I had accumulated so far with the company. I had been working there since September of last year so I was over 3 months and had no warnings that my job was on the line. The last review I had gotten from my supervisor was 2 weeks ago and it was a positive review, saying that there was a little room for improvement but that I was doing really well. I had begun the job as a dispatcher and convinced them into a higher wage then they had originally offered me... then due to space restrictions I was switched to customer service temporarily (until we moved to the new office that is being built) but that project turned to be taking longer then expected and I'm assuming they realized they had someone doing customer service getting paid more then everyone else in that department when they could replace me for someone for minimum wage. I honestly think that I was fired to save money. I have some odd problems with my case though... I never signed an employment contract and have email evidence where I had asked for one and never got one. I also did not sign anything when they fired me. I asked another customer service worker and she said she had been working there for years and was making $40 less per week then I was but had signed an employment contract... it seems a little odd to me so I'm not sure how to proceed. I feel like the company has stopped following legal requirements with their recent employees and does not give any credit to long existing ones

I had a new job for six weeks or so. I had backed a company work truck into a car at a dealership while I was being screamed at by a higher up, they owners of the company said things happen and let it go. A few weeks later I accidentally banged up a company truck trying to get it out of the garage, I was told I wasn't being fired, however I was fired two days later after a coworker smashed and broke the company truck he was driving. This is not his first incident and I was under the impression he was being fired also. He is a friend of the owners and was not let go. When I was being fired I was told that I was new and shouldn't have been driving, however they were aware of my driving and never told me not to (a supervisor told me to drive and I just continued driving). My question is, after being told I wasn't being fired, can they just change their minds and fire me?

I was fired without cause yesterday and offered 8 weeks severance plus an additional 4 weeks if I sign by Monday that I won't sue them. My questions is am I entitled to more? Small company 30+ employees under 2.5 million in payroll, I have worked for the company for 22 years.

if my wife has had a sickness that hospitals took over 1.5 years to fix and my wife was off and back to work and now again has run into another issue that the doctors can't seem to assess can the company legally fire her. they are stating to many sick days off, she is willing to work remotely yet company refuses