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Is it wrong to harass and threaten someone when your on shift at work? I’m asking because I’ve been harassed.

I am a hospital security guard and have been fired after 13 years of service for breaching a patients confidentiality by filming the patient dancing at the patient’s request and with my obtaining verbal consent from her,. Consent and incident was witnessed by another staff member. I had no intention of posting the video to social media and I used Snapchat as it was my understanding that the video would not be stored. However I was mistaken and my friends on Snapchat, many of them my co-workers could see the video. A coworker informed me of this fact and I immediately deleted the video. The coworker also reported me which is standard practice. The patient has not complained nor been made aware of any breach to the best of my knowledge. Do I have any recourse. I did not intend to breach the patients confidentiality. At best, it was poor a lack of knowledge as to how the app worked.

I have worked for a company for 20 years they requested that we sign a new contract reducing our wages. I refused to sign but the stress forced me to give notice of retirement. Now they are refusing to pay out my backend commissions of a considerable amount saying I quit so I don't qualify. I am 65 years old. I have knowledge that at least one other employee was paid out when he quit. Is there anything we can do to recover this money?

can I get fired for leaving work 4 hours before the shift is over because I had massive ccramps and I stay threw most the day?

I was given a definite lay off from a company I had worked at for 6 months, I was told that I was not meeting their expectations. I had been given no warning of these concerns , never approached or given any verbal warnings. I will be receiving 1 week severance. My question is am I able to go after them for wrongful dismissal.