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I work for SNC-Lavalin as a Area Construction Manager on a project in Sudbury Ont . My current contract expires on Dec 31 of this year. I was brought in the office of the SNC Project Director on May 30 and told that the client had asked that I be removed from the project. I asked what the reason was and he said they gave no specific reason other than I was too much like another Construction Manager that had left the project approx 1.5 years ago. I was told my last day would be June 17th . I have never been brought into the office as any kind of warning or told that the client was not happy with my proformance. I feel that I should be compensated for this wrongful dismissal.

I have been dismissed today for a no show no call in.....I get the reason...my thing is I worked night shift and have been asking to be moved to afternoons for awhile now they told me if someone is willing to go to nights I could go to afternoons...I have found someone but they said no...I have done a no show no call in not on purpose but because I slept through my alarms with the help of a sleeping aid because of not sleeping properly...thought it would help but I was wrong...I have tried to see if we can work something out but was told no and let go....is this right?

I began working for my current employer in 1999. In 2006 we merged with similar US company and by 2008 I was the last employee left in Canada. They laid everyone else off but needed someone here to maintain equipment for them. Last December I received an email stating the company would be stopping operations in Canada in the first quarter of this year and that I was to be let go. I then requested but was not given a specific date that I would be let go. Since then, operations in Canada have not ceased, and it may be months still before I am let go, if at all... but I am not being told anything. Is the termination email that I received back in December still considered valid .. and is my working notice time accruing such that they can eventually let me go without giving me any severance? Also, does the fact that the company is now under American management come into play? Thanks very much.

Hello I read the questions and listen quite often to the radio show. ON many occasions, you stated, that firing for cause is extremely , extremely difficult, in fact you refer it to the death penalty of the work world. I quote one sentence that you wrote "Terminating someone for cause based on poor performance is an extremely high standard " But yet In another answer to a question, you stated the following, "You definitely need a lawyer as terminations "for cause" are notoriously difficult to challenge by self-represented employees". My question would be in termination someone for cause is an extremely high standard,why are they so difficult to challenge Thank you

I was terminated on January 13th by International company - SITA. My position was Senior Account Manager. It was VP Sales for North America, 1st day on the job, he works in Atlanta and I never met him. I requested to discuss severance given the proposals I had in the Sales Funnel but no reply. I sent several letters and only Canadian HR lady kept contacting me and threatening not to pay my pay owning / severance if I didn't sign of on letter of termination. My funnel is starting to close successfully and SiTA will be getting contract with GTAA worth over $ 50 million over the next 5 years due to the deal i put together. I believe they terminated me to avoid paying commission of over $ 1 million. Can I do anything given that I signed off to receive my 14 week severance.