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I was let go for bad attitude. Ive been with this company for 8 years and am in the union. can i get severance pay?

Can my employer fire me for no reason at all?

Was dismissed yesterday, the assistant manager called me in the manager's office who was away on holidays and proceeded to tell me that they had to let me go, I then asked him if there was any reasons and he said it was for fiscal reasons, find that hard to believe as their busiest season will start in app. One month, I then asked if I did anything wrong and he said no, then asked him why I was getting dismissed instead of two other people including the dept. manager son, one who started at the same time as myself and the son started full time about three months ago, been at this job two full years starting my third,did not even ask to downsize my pay or switch me to another dealerships as they own 26 of them, dept manager and owner principal not there at this time, he then gave me a letter stating that as our previous conversation that morning (never happened) that I was being dismissed without just cause. This happened at 12.30 on July 31st 2015, I feel that I was discriminated upon especially since he could not give me a cause. What are my recourse and can I sue for wrongful or unjust dismissal.( can you send me this back via e-mail so I have a copy of this)

Can an employer terminate your full time permanent job with no cause and hire another employee for the same position.

My father in law (a Polish born Canadian citizen) worked for a group of companies for 20 + years The majority of the work was for one of the 3 companies (19 years) from which he was laid off. He was then hired back to another company owned by the same ownership. They then proceeded to reduce hours and make it difficult to continue to work with them and then forced him to quit so he could move on and support he family. The companies all run under different names and CRA numbers, so I informed him that they owe him a minimum of 8 weeks termination from the one long standing business. I do not believe they have the yearly sales to get severace as well because they split their revenue between all their businesses. I filled a claim this week with the Ministry of labour and received an email back threatening to send the authorities to his home to recover some materials that were given to my father in law. They are proceeding like he has stolen them. They have also engaged Wakefield Fillion. We have no proof that these items were gifted but there was also no purchase agreement. What do we do? I wrote this on my father in laws behalf due to Polish being his mother tongue.