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Can I be fired for refusing to be part of a mandatory WhatsApp group at my work? The messages frequently come outside my working hours and are not usually very important. It has been negatively affecting my mental health. The owner considers it a requirement of all staff. I am a part time employee in Ontario.

I was working for a company for 10 months about two months before I was fired they told us that we had to work mandatory Saturdays it wasn't like that when I first got hired they told me that Saturdays we're optional so on the one Saturday I couldn't make it in the Friday I told my supervisor and he said that if I didn't come in i would end up getting fired and of course I didn't come in on the sat and on Monday I end up getting fired I later learned to find out a boat two weeks after I got fired mandatory Saturdays were cancelled

My contract wasn’t renewed with no justification as to why. However I’ve been with the company since 2017 and received no performance review. In the contract it says it is to be renewed based on performance and evaluation however I was not given one.

I have been with a company for 9 mths, there were two of us hired to replace one position. I am 53 years of age and the other person is in their 20’s. The person in their 20’s is now doing the duties of a Supervisor and HR without officially having the title and doing a lot of work I am supposed to be doing. There is talk about letting people go come March or April 2020, and I know I am going to be one of them because the person that was hired with me is younger and they are investing in her by training her in different areas of the company. What are my legal rights when I am let go in the new year?

3 more days will mark my 1 year with this company, I was fired today, I was on a final warning, but they recently introduced a new program (about a week ago) I was pulled into a meeting a week prior to discuss and acknowledge this new attendance program, They had expressed it was a post system. A max of 8 points before you get let go. I was at 6 I was late yesterday which was .5 of a point. I expressed it doesn’t make sense to implement a new program but to bring in the past. They said the reason they let me go is cause I was already on the edge but if the point system was already in effect and I had 1.5points left over how can that be fair?